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10 Effective Tactics to Defeat Internet Trolls via @sejournal, @JuliaEMcCoy

Search Engine Journal

Trolls may be the bane of the internet, but they shouldn't ruin your day. Learn to purge online trolls and prevent them from returning. The post 10 Effective Tactics to Defeat Internet Trolls appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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Out of Ideas? 10+ Tools to Spark Content Creation

Content Marketing Institute

Struggling to find new ideas to fill your editorial calendar? Here are more than 10 tips, tricks, and tools to help you go from stagnant to fresh. Continue reading → The post Out of Ideas? 10+ Tools to Spark Content Creation appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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7 tips for building brand identity

Martech

If marketers don’t take control of how customers perceive their brands, customers will. “One of the things we’ve got to remember about customers is that they always like to attribute personalities to the characters they interact with,” said Terry Flynn, president of multichannel marketing company Market Chord, in his recent MarTech presentation.

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How to Build Paid Ad Campaigns Around Typos, Misspellings, and More

Neil Patel

We all make mistakes. It’s part of being human. Unfortunately, in some cases, mistakes can be costly. If you’re a marketer running paid campaigns , mistakes can actually be blessings in disguise. That’s because you can build paid ad campaigns around typos, misspellings, and other types of mistakes if you play your cards right. Mistakes in ads have a high chance of going viral.

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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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10 of the Worst SEO Mistakes Even the Experts Make via @sejournal, @krisjonescom

Search Engine Journal

Even longtime SEO experts can slip up now and then. Here are 10 of the worst mistakes you can make when doing SEO. The post 10 of the Worst SEO Mistakes Even the Experts Make appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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Use Internal Links to Get a Better Reception from Search Engines and Readers

Content Marketing Institute

Would you like to generate more blog traffic from search engines? Would you like new visitors to read other content on your site? You can do that with this low-hanging fruit solution. Continue reading → The post Use Internal Links to Get a Better Reception from Search Engines and Readers appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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How to Do Paid Social Without Cookies

Neil Patel

Google made a big splash when they announced the end of third-party cookies in Chrome, and Apple has announced a similar change. It’s a huge shift for social media marketers, so what can you expect cookieless paid social to look like? Google’s answer to the end of third-party cookies is the Privacy Sandbox , which will anonymize data to help increase privacy and limit spam and fraud.

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Google on Product Price As a Ranking Factor via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Search Engine Journal

Google's John Mueller discusses product price as a ranking factor and explains whether it can impact the positions of ecommerce stores in search results. The post Google on Product Price As a Ranking Factor appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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These 4 Analytics Oversights Mess With Your Content Performance Plan

Content Marketing Institute

Trust Insights’ chief data scientist Chris Penn outlines the common analytics mistakes marketers make. Even better, he details how to make measurement plans more effective. Continue reading → The post These 4 Analytics Oversights Mess With Your Content Performance Plan appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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5 Reasons to Add YouTube Shorts to Your Digital Marketing Strategy

Marketing Insider Group

Digital marketers must contend with an all-new, promising marketing platform being released every few months. It often seems as though marketers don’t even get sufficient time to evaluate the various merits and tradeoffs associated with one new platform before something else comes along to supplant it. The ability to pivot at a moment’s notice is an increasingly important qualification for today’s marketers.

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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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What is marketing work management and how do these platforms support agile marketing?

Martech

Marketing work management platforms help marketing leaders and their teams structure their day-to-day work to meet their goals on deadline and within budget constraints, all while managing resources and facilitating communication and collaboration. Functions may include task assignments, time tracking, budgeting, team communication and file sharing, among others.

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Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram Down in “Epic” Configuration Error Outage via @sejournal, @martinibuster

Search Engine Journal

Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram suffer DNS related outage described as "epic" and a "nightmare." This is what happened The post Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram Down in “Epic” Configuration Error Outage appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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Drop Great Anchor Text To Keep Your SEO Strategy Afloat

Content Marketing Institute

As Google crawls your site, it searches for anchor text. Done well, that content signals relevancy and authority. Done poorly, it can sink your content in the eyes of Google (and readers). Continue reading → The post Drop Great Anchor Text To Keep Your SEO Strategy Afloat appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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Analyze earned and owned data to measure the true impact of social on your business

Sprout Social

Social data has become a critical source of strategic insights for businesses of every size and industry. Whether you’re measuring brand health, benchmarking against competitors, or assessing market opportunities, social data provides real-time consumer insights that no other data source can provide. Social data stands to have a monumental impact on businesses—but only if marketers start tapping into its potential now.

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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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Facebook’s failure highlights why email reigns

Martech

What were you doing when Facebook went down on Monday? If you were like many of your fellow marketers, you were tearing your hair out because you couldn’t access any Facebook-owned sites like Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. No social posting. No campaign research, launches or analysis. Gaahhhhh! But some resourceful email marketers seized the opportunity to launch quick campaigns that capitalized gleefully on the global outage.

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Twitter Lets Businesses Apply For Professional Profiles via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Search Engine Journal

After an initial rollout to a small test group, Twitter is now opening up applications for professional profiles to all interested businesses. The post Twitter Lets Businesses Apply For Professional Profiles appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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3 Hot Takes: Experiments in SEO, Work-Life Balance, and #FacebookDown

Content Marketing Institute

Go behind the scenes at Service Direct and Atlassian as they reveal the results of their carefully planned content operations changes. Then, use Facebook’s accidental experiment to check your own content operations resilience. Continue reading → The post 3 Hot Takes: Experiments in SEO, Work-Life Balance, and #FacebookDown appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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How to Market Without Cookies

Neil Patel

For several years, many digital marketing teams relied on cookies for marketing. However, everything is about to change. Mozilla Firefox and Apple Safari already block third-party cookies, and recently, Google revealed it would no longer support cookies on ad networks and its Chrome browser. What does this mean for marketing teams, and what can you do to ensure your business keeps running smoothly when you are marketing without cookies?

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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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5 ways to improve onsite search

Martech

Having a website search function is critical to any business’s success. However, many have a difficult time providing customers with relevant search results and gaining actionable insights from the data. “Site search is a misunderstood capability on our websites,” said Stephen Zakur, CEO at SoloSegment, in his talk at our recent MarTech conference. “As marketers, we often think about listening very closely to our customers, but we do that in kind of obtuse ways.

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Google Search Console Adds More Detail to Error Reports via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Search Engine Journal

Google is adding more detail to Search Console reports in an effort to assist SEOs with resolving rich results errors. The post Google Search Console Adds More Detail to Error Reports appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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One small step for brand: What marketers need to know about conscious—and increasingly skeptical—consumers 

Sprout Social

Social justice movements, a global pandemic, climate change and other environmental disasters. Look no further than the news cycle to understand why consumers are becoming more careful about the businesses they support, the products they use and their impact on the planet. Waves of corporations have responded by making pledges to uphold eco-friendly, socially responsible, antiracist business practices.

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A 15 Step Checklist to Prepare Your E-Commerce Site for Black Friday and Holiday Shopping

Neil Patel

30 percent of all retail sales occur between Black Friday and Christmas. This means preparing your e-commerce site for this busy period is essential to success. The good news is, small changes can make a big difference to your revenue. The level of competition for Black Friday e-commerce sales is off the charts, which means it pays to start preparing now.

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The Resurgence of Direct Mail as a Growth Marketing Strategy

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.

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Supply chain breakdown: Marketoon of the Week

Martech

Fishburne’s take: As “ Shipageddon ” roils the best laid marketing plans, marketers will have to work even closer with their supply chain colleagues so they can communicate the right messages about the right items at the right time. Holiday messaging will start earlier than in year’s past and consumers will expect higher degrees of transparency.

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12 Completely Outdated SEO Practices You Should Avoid via @sejournal, @searchmastergen

Search Engine Journal

It's best to stay updated on best practices and tactics. These 12 outdated SEO practices can cause more harm than good for your brand. The post 12 Completely Outdated SEO Practices You Should Avoid appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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4 Ways to Make B2B Customer Service Better

Industrial Marketer

Great customer service is important whether you’re running a B2C or a B2B company. However, just like there is a difference between industrial marketing and consumer marketing, how you deliver customer service significantly varies when you are talking about B2B customer service vs. B2C customer service. B2C companies offer products and services directly to consumers, Read more » The post 4 Ways to Make B2B Customer Service Better appeared first on Industrial Marketer.

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The 7 Best Strategies for D2C Brands

Neil Patel

D2C companies, by definition, take out the middleman and sell their products “direct to consumers.”. In many ways, this seems like an obvious choice. You sell your product straight to them and cut out any fees required with wholesale and other sales platforms. Plus, you don’t have to charge markup fees to cover those additional costs, so you can keep the prices low for your customers.

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Brick & Mortar Retail Relevance: How to Stay Ahead of the Curve

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

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The evolving B2B customer journey: Thursday’s Daily Brief

Martech

MarTech’s daily brief features daily insights, news, tips, and essential bits of wisdom for today’s digital marketer. If you would like to read this before the rest of the internet does, sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox daily. Good morning, Marketers, and B2B is becoming more experiential. I was talking to a Chief Customer Officer at a marketing/sales tech company and we were reflecting on how much the new B2B selling environment has learned from B2C.

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A Complete Guide to Keyword Search Volume for SEO via @sejournal, @marktraphagen

Search Engine Journal

Search volume is a key metric for effective keyword research. Read about its limitations and ways to enhance the information and data it provides. The post A Complete Guide to Keyword Search Volume for SEO appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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Litmus Live 2021 Speaker: Meet Veronica Best, Email AMPlifier

Litmus

Where can you get how-tos, tips, and advice from marketing leaders and email marketing experts? Litmus Live , THE conference for email marketers! Get ready for the livestream this year on October 26th-27th—and learn from pros like Veronica Best. Veronica Best. VP of Product at Dyspatch. Follow Veronica on LinkedIn and Twitter. Veronica’s Litmus Live session will teach you five ways to increase email engagement by up to 500% using AMP for Email. ( See the full Litmus Live agenda.).

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Best Display Campaign of Summer 2021: Telenor

Bannerflow

Our Summer 2021 winner of our best display advertising campaign competition was a neat blend of brand and an engaging summer feeling! Congratulations to Telenor for it’s summer campaign for the Swedish market. Telenor is a leading Nordic telecommunications company in mobile, broadband and TV services, as well as other ventures. Worldwide, Telenor Group has 188 million customers, with Sweden just one of its markets in the Nordic region.

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What Regulations Will Impact Sustainability Comms in 2024?

Navigating the waters of sustainability reporting disclosures and regulations can be intimidating, to say the least. With various measures set in motion in 2023 to keep companies accountable, there is a lot in store for brands’ impact communication in the upcoming year. 3BL is kicking off this January with our Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Capricorn Edition by highlighting the impact of: The U.S Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Climate disclosure rules The European Commission