Hubspot Marketing
JANUARY 5, 2018
The machines are here. You may have heard rumors about artificial intelligence (AI) potentially taking over our jobs. And the question is: Should you be concerned? In my opinion, we should be excited. AI -- especially “deep learning” technology -- brings new opportunities and innovation in the way digital marketing, sales, and customer support are handled.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
JANUARY 5, 2018
I realize that not everyone watched the game show “Family Feud” growing up, which is the source of the title for this blog, so here’s a random link to an entire episode that you may want to watch, just to absorb the quality of the analogy. Or, you can skip that entirely and go straight to the good stuff. Now…prepare for me to use the word “market” in its various forms a LOT in this next sentence.
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Content Marketing Institute
JANUARY 4, 2018
Voice-enabled search is one of the biggest topics in SEO circles, but many content marketers haven’t embraced the implications of virtual assistants and other voice-powered technology. As an SEO and content architect at Moz, I urge marketers to understand voice’s importance and the need to do so today to prepare for the voice revolution. HANDPICKED RELATED CONTENT: Are You Ready for Content Marketing in 2018?
Marketing Insider Group
JANUARY 2, 2018
Network, learn, discover. The best marketing events are where we grow in our field and get our dose of marketing inspiration. There were dozens of fantastic marketing conferences last year. Whether you attended some and are planning your event schedule for 2018 or you are excited about trying your first one, make sure you put one […]. The post The Best Marketing Conferences of 2018 appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.
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Marketing and sales might be two halves of the same coin, but how often do they feel like they’re tossed in completely different directions? It’s time to bridge the gap, align your teams, and start building a pipeline instead of frustration. Join us for this insightful webinar to transform your siloed teams into a powerhouse partnership. What you’ll learn: A clear understanding of why sales and marketing alignment is crucial for business growth.
Hubspot Marketing
JANUARY 4, 2018
If you're reading this article, then I probably don't need to tell you that video content accounts for over 74% of all online traffic , or that over five billion YouTube videos are watched every single day. You're clever. You already know that YouTube is an important content tool, and you're ready to start leveraging video for your own business. This article will cover everything you need to know about creating a YouTube channel, so you can start uploading your own videos and growing your audien
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
JANUARY 4, 2018
Two or three years ago, you launched a landing page. It worked fine. Customers came and returned, conversion rates were sky-high, and sales from it satisfied your marketing ambitions. But then… poof! Things slowed down. Conversions fall. So does your profit. You wonder, “What’s going on? A market grows, but a client goes? Something’s got to give, no?
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Marketing Insider Group
JANUARY 3, 2018
At the end of 2017, we were not merely discussing what the future of marketing will be like. We were living it. No longer are artificial intelligence, VR, voice activation and other tech next-generation concepts reserved for big budget brands to play around with. Nor are marketers trapped by the traditional tame, safe, and well-defined […]. The post The Future Marketing Trends That Rocked 2017 appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.
Traackr
JANUARY 5, 2018
Meet Andy Cunningham and discover her game-changing process of positioning to help you define your company’s DNA, and see how influencers fit in the equation.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
JANUARY 3, 2018
Video is one of the most effective ways to drive sales for marketers. According to Email Monks , emails with videos drive a staggering 280% higher return than the ones without. In fact, according to a report by the Aberdeen Group, 67% of organizations use video to create brand awareness, 60% use video to drive conversions and 53% use video to nurture leads.
Content Marketing Institute
JANUARY 3, 2018
2017 was the year brands buy media companies, according to Joe Pulizzi and Robert Rose who made the declaration in a This Old Marketing podcast last May. Did it happen? Has your organization bought any media companies or even maybe built its own media arm? Maybe. Maybe not. Either way, you’re probably curious about what it looks like for a brand to run a media organization.
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Marketing Insider Group
JANUARY 4, 2018
Major marketplaces, like Amazon and eBay, come with restrictive seller policies. These venues downplay merchants’ branding to maintain their own homogenous image. Sellers with their own online stores play a different game. They have complete control over their customers’ experiences. Whether it’s rearranging product placement or highlighting a store sale, merchants can use their website […].
Duct Tape Marketing
JANUARY 3, 2018
8 Ways Local Businesses Can Get Started with Link Building written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. I work with clients and consultants all over the world, and a common theme I see is that many local businesses don’t know where to get started when it comes to local search, and with that, comes not understanding the importance of link building and how to get started.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
JANUARY 2, 2018
My three-year-old was extra special the other day and I wanted to surprise her with a treat on our walk home from school. We passed by a storefront with macarons in the window—one of my daughter’s favorites—but we kept on walking for another block. Why? Because it was worth the extra time to go to our favorite bakery, the one where we know the talented baker, with whom we’ve had many conversations about our lives and hers.
Content Marketing Institute
JANUARY 1, 2018
These days, most companies recognize the importance of mobile optimization for the customer experience. Indeed, as customers increasingly use their smartphones on the go, brands must offer mobile-friendly sites and easy ways to obtain customer service. However, optimization is just one way to earn loyalty. To fully engage these customers, every brand should consider the numerous mobile technologies that are transforming the customer experience.
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.
Marketing Insider Group
JANUARY 2, 2018
If there’s one golden rule of marketing, this is it: It doesn’t matter how cool or revolutionary your product, service, or company is. If you’re tooting your own horn and talking about how amazing your stuff is, that’s just… not very compelling. If you have influential people within the industry saying all these nice things […]. The post How to Find, Reach Out To, and Work With Influencers (Without Breaking the Bank) appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.
Duct Tape Marketing
JANUARY 3, 2018
Why Local SEO is an Important Lead Generation Channel written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Justin Sturges. Podcast Transcript. SEO tools and strategies are constantly changing. All the while, it’s never been more important that you get found online when people go out there searching – particularly if you’re a local business.
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
JANUARY 5, 2018
Automation is impacting some surprising industries.
Zumvu
JANUARY 4, 2018
Content Marketing will experience a raise more than any other domain in Digital Marketing.
Speaker: Kevin Burke, Founder & Managing Director at Digital One and AI & Automation Consultant
AI and automation are currently transforming the way sales and marketing teams operate. Generative AI crafts personalized outreach at scale, while conversational AI bots are engaging prospects in real time. Robotic process automation streamlines manual workflows by triggering tasks the moment a prospect takes a key action, and advanced AI analytics surface hidden patterns in the pipeline, improve forecasting, and help teams make data-driven decisions with confidence.
Marketing Insider Group
JANUARY 3, 2018
Imagine you owned a business with two locations next door to one another. One of them has not been updated since 2005, but it contains the reception area. The other is a freshly updated, beautiful and highly functional corporate headquarters. When a customer or prospect shows up to see your beautiful company HQ, they first […]. The post No, Your Website Is NOT Done appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.
Duct Tape Marketing
JANUARY 4, 2018
Tips for Attracting Local Clients written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with David Mihm. Podcast Transcript. Perhaps the hottest area in the world of search today is local. I’ve been writing about this topic for about ten years, but Google is finally taking it seriously. The reason? Plain old AdWords search revenue is starting to shrink and Google is looking to monetize the map and local listings as the next frontier.
Rock Content
JANUARY 3, 2018
It is absolutely that time of year again – many of us have taken the time to make New Year’s Resolutions, set goals, intentions and make plans for the upcoming year – both personally and professionally. Many of my colleagues and peers have been talking about their resolution to invest time in building their personal brands online – especially those in B2B sales roles.
Zumvu
JANUARY 4, 2018
Content Marketing will experience a raise more than any other domain in Digital Marketing.
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Ever wonder what really makes B2B buyers tick? Spoiler alert: it’s not just logic. Join us for our next session of the B2B Growth Show, "Neuroscience of B2B Buyer Behavior: Strategies for Influencing Buyer Choices" with Grant C. Gooding, where science meets strategy. You'll get the insider scoop on how emotions secretly drive decisions and how you can tap into them to win buyers over.
Marketing Insider Group
JANUARY 4, 2018
Some businesses make it hard to work with them. It seems at times that many B2B organizations have made it so complex and uncomfortable to work with that customers are forced to find an alternative even if their current provider offers a better product or solution. As connected consumers, we want ease, we want a good […]. The post Empathy, Web and People: Improving The B2B Customer Experience appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.
Duct Tape Marketing
JANUARY 3, 2018
Transcript of Why Local SEO is an Important Lead Generation Channel written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Back to Podcast. Transcript. John Jantsch: Hello, welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast. This is John Jantsch, and my guest today is Justin Sturges. He is a local SEO, website building, and lead generation expert, and also the co-author of a book called Local Lead Generation, and he just so happens to also be a member of the Duct Tape Marketing con
Rock Content
JANUARY 4, 2018
Mashable’s Editorial Team wanted to create an engaging live blog experience for their audience, as well as enable editorial contributors to easily upload content in a timely manner. They had tried using a variety of content publishing tools up to that point, but were still unsatisfied with the results they were seeing. After comparing against three other vendor options, Mashable liked the experience of ScribbleLive Engage the most and decided to move forward with rolling it out to the Editorial
Zumvu
JANUARY 4, 2018
Even a passionate blogger sometimes finds it difficult to pick a topic. As topic is all that matters in the era of digital marketing. If your blog topic is interesting and catchy then only it has a better chance of getting popularity.
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Are you struggling to highlight your impact and showcase the results of your team’s marketing efforts? Do you find it challenging to build more effective campaigns that drive meaningful results? The key may lie in unlocking the power of marketing technology (martech)—but as a non-technical marketing leader, navigating this landscape can feel daunting.
Marketing Insider Group
JANUARY 5, 2018
For the 156th episode of The Marketing Book Podcast, I interviewed Rohit Bhargava, author of Non-Obvious 2018 Edition: How To Predict Trends And Win The Future. For the past 8 years, marketing expert and Georgetown University Professor Rohit Bhargava has curated his best-selling list of non-obvious trends by asking the questions that most trend predictors […].
Duct Tape Marketing
DECEMBER 30, 2017
Weekend Favs December 30 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.
Content Marketing Institute
JANUARY 1, 2018
When you have been in any industry for awhile, it’s easy to feel a bit burnt out on the topic. As the former head of editorial at CMI I’ve read thousands of articles, written hundreds of posts, and had countless conversations about content marketing. Still, I continue to have aha moments that impact how I approach content marketing. This article is a potluck of my top lightbulb ideas in 2017 that I hope will help you evolve your content marketing programs in 2018.
Marketing Insider Group
JANUARY 5, 2018
One of the single most crushing problems facing ecommerce entrepreneurs today is fraudulent transactions. Out of control fraud in the shopping cart will inevitably lead to the termination of a business’s merchant account, in addition to untold financial loss including: costly chargebacks, fraud investigation costs, court fees, and the cost of lost (stolen) goods shipped out to fraudsters.
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