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30 Books to Help Make You a Better Marketer

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

It’s that time of year! Leaves are starting to turn, the days are getting shorter, pumpkin spice everything has infiltrated the consumables marketplace, and syllabi are in the hands of many students as school is back in session! While marketers don’t exactly get the summer off, Fall is a perfect time to get back to into a learning and growth mindset with 30 books to stick on your reading list.

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3 Skills Every Hybrid Marketer Must Master

Marketing Insider Group

As years pass and marketing channels evolve, marketers are held to an even higher standard. The good old days when marketing professionals were labeled as working in either “accounts” or “creative” are gone. Today, agency and in-house marketers alike are required to employ more integrated marketing tactics to meet the needs of our fast-paced, consumer-driven world. […].

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Top 7 Mistakes That Kill Your Ads Conversion in 2017

Duct Tape Marketing

Top 7 Mistakes That Kill Your Ads Conversion in 2017 written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Business spends huge money on sending their message to customers, but the results leave much to be desired: For every $92 spent acquiring customers, only $1 is spent converting them; besides, only 8% of users pay attention to marketing ads and click on them.

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How to Know When to Ignore a Best Practice in Content Marketing Strategy

Rock Content

Oh, those best practices. I get asked about them often. What’s the best practice when it comes to , <insert topical area> Christoph? I’m a big fan of best practices and even a bigger fan of ignoring them when it counts. Let’s look at some of the areas that have some of the most commonly debated best practices in content marketing.

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How to Leverage Behavioral Science Insights for Direct Mail Success

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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Three Ways to Measure Success in the Engagement Economy

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Metrics, metrics everywhere, and still no way to know how you’re doing. That might be an exaggeration, but it’s certainly the way it can feel sometimes, especially in an era where interactions, data, and real-time customer feedback are at an all-time high. I recently attended an interview our Global Vice President of Product Marketing, Matt Zilli, did with theCUBE, on how to address success in the Engagement Economy.

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The Top Marketing Challenges in The Engagement Economy [Research]

Marketing Insider Group

A new global study released by Marketo and the independent research firm, Illuminas, reveals the biggest challenges marketers face on their quest for successful, brand-sustaining engagement. We may be years into the Engagement Economy – ‘a new era where everyone and everything is connected’ – but that doesn’t mean marketers are pulling off the right […].

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I Tried These Productivity Hacks for a Month So You Wouldn't Have To

Hubspot Marketing

I'm not ashamed to admit that I'm not the most together person in the world. I eat three meals a day, but one of them is usually takeout. I hit snooze so often it should be considered a nap. And I definitely don't drink enough water. But I imagine I'm not alone. There are plenty of productive members of society like myself who work and go to school and have fulfilling lives -- those lives just don't always involve waking up at 5 a.m. for morning meditation or listening to stimulating podcasts on

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Tips for Email Success in the Engagement Economy

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

There’s no doubt that email is critical for B2B marketing—in fact, it’s often rated the top channel in industry surveys. But when it comes to the Engagement Economy , the B2B email playbook is woefully behind. Email is primarily a 1-way channel for outbound marketing, rather than a 2-way channel for engagement marketing. Most companies don’t encourage engagement in an email, and many companies downright prevent engagement (e.g., sending the email from a “no reply”)!

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7 Core Skills Every Digital Marketer Will Need to Master Beyond 2017

Marketing Insider Group

As a marketer, you’re no doubt aware of the constant changes the world of digital marketing is experiencing. You’re also probably well aware of how these big changes force marketers to constantly adapt and add new skills to their marketing stack. That’s why it’s essential for marketers to have the ability to adapt to new […]. The post 7 Core Skills Every Digital Marketer Will Need to Master Beyond 2017 appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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How to Make Digital Advertising Mobile Friendly

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Make Digital Advertising Mobile Friendly written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. t has recently been reported that three-quarters of the people who live in the United States hold phones in their pockets. It’s almost obvious that marketers from all over the place now commit more time, money, and effort in their mobile advertising campaigns rather than sticking to the basic digital ones.

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Sales & Marketing Alignment: How to Synergize for Success

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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7 Steps to Launch a Successful Social Selling Program

Rock Content

There’s a good reason why 90% of the top salespeople use social selling tools, according to a report by LinkedIn*. Social selling clearly works. If we take a step back and look to research from IDC, we begin to see why. According to IDC, today’s digitally enabled buyers rely on social media more than ever as part of the buying process, with 75% of buyers citing social media as a way to research vendors**.

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3 Insights on the Impact and Future of Business, Marketing, and Sales Operations

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Operations occur near constantly across your organization through processes and details that you may never even be aware of. As a marketer, you’re likely most familiar with marketing operations, and hopefully, sales operations because of your partnership with sales, but then maybe less familiar with business operations. But when it comes down to it, operations and the people that power those functions are absolutely critical to the work you do and the smooth functioning of your business.

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5 Event Marketing Examples We’re Still Talking About

Marketing Insider Group

The event experience, when done well, can generate leads and build that loyal customer base like nothing else. Over three-quarters of B2B marketers use events – with 67 percent overall citing event marketing as their most effective strategy. Across the board, marketers are devoting between 20 and 25 percent of their budgets to marketing events. With the technology available […].

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Weekend Favs September 2

Duct Tape Marketing

Weekend Favs September 2 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. iFundWomen – iFundWomen is a crowdfunding platform for women-led startups and sma

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Are Your Impact Comms Resonating With Stakeholders?

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.

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5 Ways to Transform Your Content From Adequate to Awesome

Marketing Insider Group

We’re overloaded with the message that “Content Is King,” but teams are still struggling with where to even start. Some latch onto sales trends that only guide a short-term strategy, while others rely on new technologies to do the work for them. We’re constantly inundated with endless choices as to the way we create, pitch, […]. The post 5 Ways to Transform Your Content From Adequate to Awesome appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Weekend Reading: “Killing Marketing” by Joe Pulizzi

Marketing Insider Group

For the 139th episode of The Marketing Book Podcast, I interviewed Joe Pulizzi, co-author with Robert Rose of Killing Marketing: How Innovative Businesses Are Turning Marketing Cost Into Profit. Killing Marketing explores how successful companies are ending the marketing as we know it – in favor of an exciting new model in which the marketing […].

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Hand-Making Tech & Embracing Slow Growth in the Digital Age [Podcast]

Marketing Insider Group

If there was a Yelp listing for every industry niche, “Headphone Brand” would appear with the most possible dollar signs. Big brands use bigger celebrities and spend some of the biggest ad budgets around to promote their products and, really, the emotion they want you to feel when you buy their products. Artists like Kendrick […]. The post Hand-Making Tech & Embracing Slow Growth in the Digital Age [Podcast] appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Sonic Branding and the New Rules of Marketing and PR

Duct Tape Marketing

Sonic Branding and the New Rules of Marketing and PR written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with David Meerman Scott. Podcast Transcript. My guest for this week’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is David Meerman Scott, one of the pioneers of inbound marketing and author of many books including the 6th edition of The New Rules of Marketing & PR.

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How to Improve Email Deliverability and Optimize Each Send

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.

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Transcript of The Hidden Personality Types That Drive Everything We Do

Duct Tape Marketing

Transcript of The Hidden Personality Types That Drive Everything We Do written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Back to Podcast. Transcript. John Jantsch: Let me ask you something. How do you handle expectations? What’s your tendency when expectations arise, when you set goals, when you have objectives, when people ask you to do things?

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Transcript of Sonic Branding and the New Rules of Marketing and PR

Duct Tape Marketing

Transcript of Sonic Branding and the New Rules of Marketing and PR written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Back to Podcast. Transcript. John Jantsch: One of the pioneers of inbound marketing, of the new rules of marketing and P&R, David Meerman Scott, joins me for this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing podcast. David and I have been friends, colleagues, for over a decade writing about all of this crazy world of marketing.

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