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How to Level Up as a Marketer in the AI Era (The Right Way)

Hubspot Marketing

I can’t lie — I’ve been feeling a little AI-fatigued lately. But the reason everyone’s still talking about AI is because it’s not going away anytime soon. The reality is it’s changing the way we work as marketers. Our State of AI report shows that more than half of marketers (60%) are using AI tools in their role. If you’re looking to grow your career, chances are you’ll have to lean into the AI hype.

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9 must-have tools for demand gen marketing

Martech

In B2B marketing, “demand generation” gets tossed around almost as much as “leads.” It is often defined through the activities that encourage individual prospects to turn into leads. As the world we sell in becomes more saturated and buyer journeys more complex, the right tools can significantly enhance the efficacy of your marketing efforts. Although I believe tech should only be added once you’ve proven a need for it, let’s take a look at some of the more prominent tools available for generati

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How to build a better remote team at your digital marketing agency

Search Engine Land

Many agencies have been operating fully remotely or in a hybrid environment for four or more years. But some challenges persist, including: A lack of face-to-face interaction and inability to read body language. Over-reliance on communication tools, such as Slack. Being unable to meet your boss or team members in person for months, years or possibly ever.

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What is the Value of Written Content in Marketing?

Marketing Insider Group

Content marketing is still one of the most popular marketing strategies available, but with the rise of social media and visual forms of content, written content seems to have fallen out of fashion. In this era, it’s easy to underestimate the power of written content, but it’s still an incredibly valuable resource for certain applications.

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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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Maximize Your SEO Rankings Through Content Enhancement

Aspiration Marketing

Various SEO aspects, such as site optimization, image optimization, link building, technical SEO, and more, can define your SEO rankings. However, SEO changes over time. Some of the aspects that defined SEO output back then no longer contribute to SEO. Similarly, what may be considered part of SEO now might change in the future. But one aspect of SEO that is bound to remain intact forever is helpful, good-quality content.

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I Tested 6 AI Tools for Graphic Design, Here Are My Favorites

Hubspot Marketing

Graphic design has come a long way since I started in the arts nearly a decade and a half ago. Improvements in tools like Photoshop or my personal favorite, Procreate, from then to now have helped remove creative roadblocks and speed up the design process. Then, user-friendly design tools like Canva have made design more accessible to non-specialists.

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Dealing with SERP Volatility: How to Dance with Google

Marketing Insider Group

Your search engine rankings are vital to your website’s success. The more often you appear in the top 10 search results for a particular term, the more traffic you can expect to visit your website. In fact, about 64% of all US web traffic comes directly from Google. Sitting high up on the search engine results page (SERP) gives you a larger slice of that traffic.

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AI Search, Cookieless Ads Boost Content Marketing

Practical eCommerce - Marketing

Content marketing is more than articles. Taking a broader view and using alternative content forms can overcome traffic losses. The post AI Search, Cookieless Ads Boost Content Marketing appeared first on Practical Ecommerce.

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Harness AI To Harmonize Your Brand Voice: A Step-by-Step Guide

Content Marketing Institute

Solve your consistent brand voice challenges with the help of AI. Learn how it can help you document, audit, and maintain your enterprise’s unique identity at every audience touchpoint.

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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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5 Effective Ways Subscription-Based Companies Can Generate Leads

Zumvu

Subscription-based businesses thrive on acquiring and retaining customers who pay a recurring fee for their services or products.

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Call To Action Best Practices - How to Increase Conversions

Aspiration Marketing

Ever pour your heart into crafting a website, only to see visitors bounce without a single click? You're not alone. The culprit? Often, it's weak Calls to Action (CTAs). These are the buttons, banners, or text prompts that nudge visitors toward your desired action, like signing up for your email list or making a purchase. Without clear and compelling CTAs, your website becomes a scenic detour, not a source of converting leads.

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Agency Leadership: How to Conquer Burnout

Social Media Examiner

Are you burning the candle at both ends? Wondering how to run a successful agency without sacrificing all of your time and energy? In this article, you’ll discover how to find the balance between professional excellence and a rich personal life. The Pervasive Problem of Burnout Burnout is a common challenge for many professionals, including […] The post Agency Leadership: How to Conquer Burnout appeared first on Social Media Examiner.

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Even great demand gen can’t overcome a lack of brand marketing

Martech

For more than a decade of my career, I held various demand generation titles at multiple companies, and the function has evolved greatly in that time. However, if you’ve been listening to the chatter on LinkedIn over the past two years, that evolution has gained speed and influence. What was once a lead generation and nurturing function has now been rebranded into a full go-to-market (GTM) approach, often owning most of the budget, especially in smaller tech companies.

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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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How to use Instagram Threads in your brand strategy

Sprout Social

Our guide shows how to use Instagram Threads to create a seamless, cross-channel marketing strategy. Learn how brands are thriving on the platform and more.

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Marketing in China and Marketing in North America - A Set of Learnings

Aspiration Marketing

Have you ever found yourself puzzled by how a marketing campaign that's a hit in North America doesn't resonate in China or vice versa? Cultural nuances and consumer behaviors can significantly influence the success of your marketing strategies. As companies increasingly look to globalize, embracing differences becomes essential. Whether Chinese companies are looking to broaden their horizons or we, Westerners, explore the vibrant Chinese markets, understanding and adapting to these diverse land

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Prompt Engineering Fundamentals: How to Get Better Results With AI

Social Media Examiner

Want to improve the content generated by AI? Wondering how top AI pros get what they need from AI? In this article, you’ll discover a four-step AI prompt engineering framework and what to do if it doesn’t work. What Is AI Prompt Engineering? Prompt engineering is the art and science of communicating with large language […] The post Prompt Engineering Fundamentals: How to Get Better Results With AI appeared first on Social Media Examiner.

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Why Holding Attention Isn’t a Worthwhile Content Strategy Anymore

Content Marketing Institute

OpenAI’s many recent missteps devalue the currency brands should prize over anything else — trust. Here’s how to seize the kind of opportunity OpenAI appears willing to squander.

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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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Influencer pricing: how much influencers really cost

Sprout Social

According to the Sprout Social Q3 Pulse Survey, 80% of marketers agree influencers are an essential part of their strategy. That doesn’t mean everyone has mastered influencer marketing. In fact, our 2024 Influencer Marketing Benchmarks Report shows most marketers struggle to measure the ROI of their influencer campaigns because of the complexity of influencer marketing.

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HubSpot Pipelines and Deal Stages | Best Practices for Sales Managers

Aspiration Marketing

Are you feeling lost in the fog of your sales pipeline? HubSpot's deal stages can be the key to clarity. By defining clear stages in your pipeline, you can forecast revenue confidently, pinpoint areas where deals stall, and equip your sales reps with the insights they need to close more deals.

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AI is a threat to some marketing agencies, an opportunity for others

Martech

AI will soon be able to handle up to 95% of the work currently done by marketing agencies, creative professionals and specialists, according to Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI. If his prediction holds true, are marketing agencies headed for an extinction event in which some survive but many are wiped out, like the dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous period?

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How to Create an Effective Facebook Ads Strategy in 2024

Hubspot Marketing

Facebook is a dominant force in social media advertising. Most marketers say it consistently delivers a better ROI than any other social media platform. As a chief content curator, I’ve created many Facebook ads, and I can attest to this. The platform's sophisticated targeting options make it an incredibly effective tool for reaching my audience. However, I‘ve personally discovered that you need an effective Facebook ad strategy to see results.

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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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The 12+ Best Instagram Editing Apps for Creators in 2024

Buffer Marketing

Have you ever been scrolling on Instagram and seen a post that looked so good it could be displayed in a gallery? That’s a slight exaggeration, but a specific genre of post probably came to mind with that statement. There are many elements to creating great Instagram posts, and editing is at the top of the list. With the development of visual social media has come an equal development in the apps that support visual content creation.

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Women in Tech: The Importance of Female Representation in Thought Leadership

MarketingOps

“Seeing other women in leadership makes me, someone who is just starting out, feel so inspired and empowered. I feel like I can do this too if I want to, whereas men often do not doubt themselves or feel insecure about putting themselves out there because they see so many other men in leadership roles and have numerous examples of success to model their careers after.

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3 ways to optimize your marketing funnel for driving revenue and leads

Martech

How should marketers approach the daunting task of reining in and improving the marketing funnel? Recently at The MarTech Conference , two marketing leaders discussed this precise task. ( Free registration to view the entire program on-demand.) Below are some of the highlights of the conversation between Adam Altmark, senior manager, solutions engineering, at security technology company CHEQ and Alex Schutte, senior director, marketing demand generation for human resources software company Payc

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How a Bottom-Up Budget Can Transform Your Company From Bottom to Top

Hubspot Marketing

The first time I managed a marketing budget, I was handed a dollar figure and asked to accomplish X, Y, and Z with it. The following year, I was asked to do more with a slightly smaller budget. Sound familiar? While this top-down approach is common, it isn’t the only way to budget. The opposite approach is a bottom-up budget, where each department and team proposes a budget according to their needs and goals.

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From Curiosity to Competitive Edge: How Mid-Market CEOs Are Using AI to Scale Smarter

Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage

This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.

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Google responds to leak: Documentation lacks context

Search Engine Land

The search community is still unpacking and processing the huge reveal of the Google Search ranking documents that were made public yesterday morning. Everyone has been asking, why has Google not commented on the leak. Well, Google has finally commented – we spoke to a Google spokesperson about the data leak. Google told us. Google told us that there are a lot of assumptions being published based on the data leak that are being taken out of context, that are incomplete and added that searc

SEO
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Experiment: How Many Instagram Stories Should You Post?

Hootsuite

Which do you prefer: brands that post a single Instagram Story per day or ones that share a flurry of updates? Which of those tactics actually earns a brand more reach? Is there even a “right” number of Instagram Stories to post in a day? We’ve got our own personal preferences, of course, but opinion is no match for data. As dedicated social media scientists, we put on our lab coats and fired up Instagram to find out once and for all if the number of Stories you post per day ca

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B2B customer acquisition strategies are evolving

Martech

For a long time it was difficult for B2B marketers to meet prospects face-to-face or at in-person events. Customer acquisition became in many respects a digital process, although it’s now being complemented again by the human touch. While social media and digital advertising have been the leading customer acquisition channels since the early days of the pandemic, live events and partner programs are becoming important again.