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The Ultimate Guide to Marketing Trends in 2018

Hubspot Marketing

Marketing moves at the speed of light … er, at least it feels that way when you’re brainstorming a new campaign or strategy, and all of a sudden, a new statistic or technology release changes everything. On a yearly, quarterly, and even monthly basis, new trends and techniques pop up and transform the way we attract, connect with, and market to our audiences.

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How to Build a B2B Content Library: A Beginner’s Guide

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

B2B companies are relying more and more on content marketing to promote and sell products. In time, brands hope to build a content library full of assets they can use to inform, educate, and persuade people to act. Your content library’s digital assets—including ebooks, images, videos, podcasts, and other useful files—play such a vital role in sales that it’s not difficult to see why digital asset management solutions are so important.

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10 Tips for Providing Top-Tier Twitter Customer Service

Sprout Social

Customer service isn’t what it used to be thanks to social media. And for consumers, that’s a good thing. Think about it. Nobody has time to sit on hold for an hour or spend days stuck in an endless email chain to get their questions answered anymore. Fast forward to present day where time is of the essence. According to Sprout’s 2018 Social Index , nearly half of all consumers have taken to social media to raise questions and concerns to brands.

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Get Your Readers to Stay Longer With These 4 Formats

Content Marketing Institute

Getting people to click to read your content is hard, whether you’re trying to entice them in an email or tempt them in the search engine results. But once you finally get them on your page, you must work even harder to keep them there. Lots of technical ways can keep them from bouncing (faster load times, minimum pop-ups, clear site navigation, etc.).

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Aligning Sales & Marketing to Drive Demand & Build Pipeline

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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.

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The 15 Best Free PDF Readers of 2018

Hubspot Marketing

Even though they’re over 25 years old , PDFs are still one of the main types of documents on the internet. Whether you’re trying to access your W-2, a contract, or an eBook, it’ll probably be in the form of a PDF. But to view these important documents, you need to download a PDF reader on your computer. There are hundreds of PDF readers and some can cost you almost a thousand dollars per year, so we sifted through the internet to find the best free PDF readers that you can download online.

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How Social Media Can Act as a Primary Sales Channel for Your Business

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

By now, I’m sure you’re sick of hearing how social media can drive conversions and create brand growth. However, your social media accounts can be a fully functional sales channel that drives revenue. Let’s take a look at how you can strategize your social media platforms and examine sales tactics that work on social. In this blog, I’ll help you turn your social media presence into an engaging sales funnel.

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How to Use Your Analytics for Smarter Content Decisions

Content Marketing Institute

Gone are the days of counting coupons to see how well people engaged with your brand’s marketing promotion. In a digital world, you no longer have to make educated guesses about which marketing tactics resulted in a brand success (or failure). Data from your customers and prospects is almost limitless. You can follow each and every digital interaction they have with your brand.

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The Ultimate Guide on How to Use Instagram Stories

Sprout Social

It’s no secret that Stories are a big deal on Instagram. But the fact that over 400 million people use Stories daily may come as a surprise to anyone who’s been sleeping on them. The recent explosion of storytelling content is no accident, though. In fact, Instagram has been pushing hard for brands and users alike to hop on the Stories bandwagon.

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How to Drive Traffic With Your Visual Content

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

How often do you see a brand-related tweet, Facebook post, or something similar without some form of visual content ? Almost all marketers have accepted the need for a visual-led strategy to amplify their social media and digital marketing activities, but how do you know if your content marketing is working? 74% of social media marketers use visual assets , and this figure is only going to increase.

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5 Tips for Making Sure Your Influencer Marketing Is Worth the Money

Marketing Insider Group

Undoubtedly, influencer marketing is a very useful tool for businesses, big and small. It’s great for increasing your brand’s reach, gaining more leads, and boosting your sales. But just like every other tool, if done incorrectly, influencer marketing can become a waste of money, or even hurt your business. If you plan on utilizing influencer […].

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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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5 Tools to Help Your Content Marketing Team Be Better

Content Marketing Institute

Almost all B2C and 96% of B2B brands rely on internal resources to execute their content marketing program. These in-house providers range from small or centralized teams serving the entire organization to individuals leading department efforts. No matter the configuration, a well-trained in-house content marketing team is a competitive advantage. But what makes a team exceptional?

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Michelin Goes Full Speed Ahead with Influencer Marketing in Northern Europe I Traackr

Traackr

How to locally adapt its influence marketing actions allows Michelin to get closer to each consumer and improve its experience.

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4 PPC Mistakes That Affect Your Advertising Campaigns

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Creating and managing a successful pay-per-click (PPC) campaign is hard work. There is no magic formula you can apply that leads to instant paid advertising success. In the pay-per-click world, there is a budget that needs to be set, there are keywords to bid on, and an audience that requires segmenting—and that’s barely cracking the surface of the things you need to manage to run successful paid campaigns.

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Why Marketers Are Still Struggling to Measure Engagement

Marketing Insider Group

The most engaging brands – the ones who are offering data-driven contextual experiences for customers – are the companies who are winning over the hearts and minds of consumers. And they are keeping them.Consumers gravitate to relevant, personalized experiences like moms to coupons. When well delivered, they aren’t just rewarding, they’re fulfilling.But, for all the […].

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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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Simple Tips to Make Better Use of Your Content Audit

Content Marketing Institute

You’ve done the content inventory. But then what? Follow these actionable tips on what to look for within the data, how to find hidden content gems, and how to use it to guide your content marketing strategy. I’ll cover practical steps to put the audit findings into action, without overworking your team. Let’s explore three areas: 1) what to look for, 2) what to track, and 3) what to do with the information you discover, including how to map your content.

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How to Edge Out Your Competition by Being Uncopyable

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Edge Out Your Competition by Being Uncopyable written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Steve A. Miller. Podcast Transcript. This week’s guest on the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is Steve A. Miller. Miller is a consultant, speaker, and author. His most recent book, Uncopyable: How to Create an Unfair Advantage Over Your Competition , is about how small business owners can create an uncopyable relationship with their clients to keep them coming b

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Using Test and Control Groups to Measure Marketing ROI

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

It’s much easier to ask what results marketing delivers than it is to find the answer. There are several challenges: from knowing when to measure to dealing with multi-touch attribution and influencers. These factors and others make it difficult to measure the contribution that a given marketing activity has on revenue. As John Wanamaker famously remarked, “Half of the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don’t know which half.

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CMO Insights: Why CMOs Need to Drive Disruptive Growth

Marketing Insider Group

The Facts Up Front: 50% of organizations state that their CMOs are the ones most responsible for driving disruptive growth. (Accenture) 67% of business owners believe that by 2020 marketing will be a revenue generator for their organizations. (Marketo) 30% of CMOs will be let go for not mastering the blended skill set of design […]. The post CMO Insights: Why CMOs Need to Drive Disruptive Growth appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Prospect, Personalize, Profit: The New Way Sales & Marketing Teams Are Aligning with AI

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.

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How LinkedIn Spun to the Top of Search for LinkedIn Marketing

Content Marketing Institute

Editor’s note: Jason Miller is a finalist for 2018 Content Marketer of the Year. We’ll share insight from CMY finalists in the blog before the winner is announced at Content Marketing World in September. . Less than five years ago, social media giant LinkedIn wasn’t the top result for searches related to LinkedIn for marketing. Sites that covered social media best practices, such as Social Media Examiner, outranked it.

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The Ultimate Guide to Earn Money on Youtube

Zumvu

The online platforms are oozing with opportunities waiting for you to grab them. If you are creative and want to showcase it to gain money and popularity.

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The Central Role of Advertising In The Customer Journey?

Duct Tape Marketing

The Central Role of Advertising In The Customer Journey? written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. When you think of advertising, your first association might be with attracting new customers. Ads are supposed to reach out to audiences unknown, introduce them to your brand, and bring them on board. But in reality, advertising can be used effectively throughout the customer journey.

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The Four P’s of B2B Marketing Just Aren’t Enough Anymore

Marketing Insider Group

Almost 10 years ago, Simon Hayward, Gartner Fellow, declared: “Most products are now good enough to serve the majority of users most of the time.” So, what does that mean for your products today? Bad news: they just aren’t as exciting for your customers as you think they are — not even close. In business-to-business, […]. The post The Four P’s of B2B Marketing Just Aren’t Enough Anymore appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Neuroscience of B2B Buyer Behavior: Strategies for Influencing Buyer Choices

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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.

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Struggling With Brand Loyalty? Ideas to Consider for Lifetime Customers

Content Marketing Institute

What does it mean to create loyal customers in a world where your competitors can be everywhere at once, shopping habits are increasingly search driven, and a single social misstep can quickly erode the favorable reputation it took your brand years to build? It has become all too common for brands to promote brand loyalty simply by lavishing reward points on anybody willing to identify as a customer or load an app on their phone.

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7 Instagram Apps to Make Your Posts Stand Out

Zumvu

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Get to Know the 4 Content Marketing Awards Finalists from ScribbleLive

Rock Content

As Content Marketing World draws closer, we’re particularly excited to recognize the four 2018 Content Marketing Awards finalists within the ScribbleLive family. Here’s a round-up of our 4 featured finalists. Rosetta Stone: Manufacturers’ Roadmap to English Language Training. Best Infographic. Rosetta Stone looked to Visually to create an engaging portrayal of key information on the topic of English language training in the workplace.

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5 Essential Visuals to Make Your Elearning Course More Engaging

Marketing Insider Group

Creating an elearning course takes a ton of time and effort, but the payoff can be huge. An elearning course is an opportunity to educate your audience about a topic related to your product and to position you/your business as thought leaders in your field. They can also be a significant revenue source. That is, […]. The post 5 Essential Visuals to Make Your Elearning Course More Engaging appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Unlocking the Power of Martech for the Non-Technical Marketing Leader

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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.

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Weekend Favs August 18

Duct Tape Marketing

Weekend Favs August 18 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.

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How Voice Search Is Going To Change Your Business

Zumvu

Language is the boundary that differentiates human beings from other species. Though, some intelligent creatures such as dolphins know how to use communication sounds.

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Artificial intelligence (AI) and marketing: 2018 trends

Bannerflow

AI and marketing look set to become ever more closely aligned. Whether that’s through the emergence of more personalised advertising or changing the way we produce ad copy. There is a shift in our perception of what is possible. Already, algorithms make our world go around. They drive digital giants Google and Facebook, and through these algorithms we view what is (apparently) relevant content.

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4 Ways Your Competitors Are Using AI to Improve their CX

Marketing Insider Group

Artificial intelligence isn’t the next big thing in marketing and customer experience anymore. Forward-thinking companies are already looking back at the AI-driven strategies they have been using for years to find ways to get even more out of smart technology. The fact is, customer experience is the top priority for 71% of B2B businesses. 37% […].

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.