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Perks are part of the culture at Adams & Knight

Adams & Knight Marketing

It’s getting tougher and tougher to attract and retain employees. According to professional staffing services firm, Ajilon, “More than 80 percent of workers are either actively looking for a new job or are open to one.” What’s more, 15 percent of workers believe you should always be exploring other opportunities.” So, how do you attract and retain good employees?

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What the AI-Delivered Buyer’s Journey Will Look Like in 2030

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

It’s a new year, and you know what that means: new annual predictions. ‘Tis the season for companies to publish their thoughts and plans for 2019, including us. And we’re betting on big changes, like the growing importance of the customer experience and artificial intelligence (AI). Our forecasting is based on research and deep knowledge of industry trends.

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How to Think About SEO

Neil Patel

Don’t you hate how it takes forever to get results when it comes to SEO? Everyone says it takes 6 months to a year and even in some cases many years to see results. Well, I have some bad news and some good news for you. Let’s start with the bad news…. SEO is a long-term strategy. It’s not about doing it for a few months and forgetting about it. And if you stop focusing on it eventually your competitors will outrank you.

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7 Super Effective Ways to Automate Content Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

One of the biggest questions I hear from clients who are just starting their journey with content marketing and those who want me to help create an effective content marketing strategy for them is, “Where do you find the time?” The simple answer is that everything you do with content marketing doesn’t have to be […]. The post 7 Super Effective Ways to Automate Content Marketing appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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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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7 Great Instagram Scheduling Tools for 2019

Content Marketing Institute

What if you had tools that don’t require a 24/7 commitment but make it seem like you operate your brand’s Instagram accounts all day and night? Here are seven options. Continue reading → The post 7 Great Instagram Scheduling Tools for 2019 appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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The complete guide to Instagram listening

Sprout Social

Is your brand keeping an ear to the ground through Instagram listening? Because there’s arguably no busier place than Instagram right now when it comes to customers sounding off. Listen: Instagram isn’t just a place to post snapshots anymore. From shout-outs and questions to customer complaints and concerns, having a strong pulse on what your followers want is always a plus.

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Fresh Content Marketing Ideas for Your B2B Buyer’s Journey

Marketing Insider Group

The content you create guides the buyer’s journey that your prospects and customers take. That’s why it’s important to tailor content to the stage of the buyer’s journey prospects and customers will be at when they come across a particular piece of content. Marketers have historically chosen content formats based upon the information needs of […].

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How to Use Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Pages as an SEO Treasure Trove

Content Marketing Institute

Bad FAQ pages confuse, bore, and fall short of their SEO potential. But FAQ pages done right can pay off for your users and your branded and non-branded keywords. Here’s how to do it. Continue reading → The post How to Use Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Pages as an SEO Treasure Trove appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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The complete guide to Twitter listening

Sprout Social

If you’re using social media solely to promote your business, then you’re missing out on a whole other facet of the channel. Utilizing social media listening tools will help your brand improve in many different ways, including product development and industry tracking. Social monitoring is the tracking of keywords and phrases relevant to your brand.

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Website Mistakes Businesses Often Make

Duct Tape Marketing

Website Mistakes Businesses Often Make written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. What makes a great website? A lot of business owners are at a loss when it comes to what their website should be to best serve their business and their customers. And web designers sometimes have their own ideas about what’s most important, which don’t always best serve their clients.

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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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How Your Small Business Can Improve SEO With Content Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

As a small business, your content strategy is the key to getting yourself seen. It drives traffic to your site, increases conversions, and strengthens your brand. Creating blogs that rank, and rank well, isn’t easy — but it’s not impossible. Read on to discover how to write and rank small business content that customers and […]. The post How Your Small Business Can Improve SEO With Content Marketing appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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3 Tips for Eyeball-Worthy Content

Content Marketing Institute

Your article gets virtual cheers from your audience. The next one flatlines. What's going on? The problem may be a lack of consistency. You should follow the same standards to create a strong foundation for every piece. Continue reading → The post 3 Tips for Eyeball-Worthy Content appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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How a CMP removes the pain of translating

Bannerflow

Good translating is essential for travel advertising. In this blog, we detail how a creative management platform (CMP) takes the pain out of translation management by: Removing repetitive tasks. Letting translators see ad copy in context. Enabling instant feedback between designers and translators. Providing a platform for effective optimisation. By comparing the “old way” of production, with the in-house method using a CMP the benefits are clear.

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What Local Businesses Need to Know About the State of Local SEO

Duct Tape Marketing

What Local Businesses Need to Know About the State of Local SEO written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Neil Crist. Podcast Transcript. Today on the podcast, I speak with Neil Crist , VP Product & Engineering at Moz. Moz is the leading industry expert on everything SEO, and in his role there, Crist leads the product and engineering teams in the creation of Moz’s portfolio of SaaS products.

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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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The Smart Company’s Guide to Increasing Employee Engagement

Marketing Insider Group

The opportunity to foster an engaged employee starts from the minute they arrive for their first day at work. Let me walk you through a scenario. Brenda arrives on time for her first day at The Company. Her immediate supervisor is not in the office yet. Her new coworkers are kind enough to help her […]. The post The Smart Company’s Guide to Increasing Employee Engagement appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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If You Give a Community a Cookie … How to Create a Great Digital Neighborhood

Content Marketing Institute

How you design your community’s “neighborhood” plays a huge role in how your audience experiences the brand. Stay away from cookie-cutter neighborhoods with this advice from the front lines of community management. Continue reading → The post If You Give a Community a Cookie … How to Create a Great Digital Neighborhood appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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So verbessern Sie mit Kurzumfragen die Lead-Generierung

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Was sind Kurzumfragen? Marketingqualifizierte Leads zu generieren ist eine der höchsten Prioritäten für innovative Marketingexperten. Allerdings geben über 50 % der Marketer zu, dass sie sich mit der Lead-Generierung schwer tun. Kommt Ihnen das bekannt vor? Dann wissen Sie wahrscheinlich auch, was der Schlüssel dazu ist, gut qualifizierte Leads zu generieren und diese schneller durch den Trichter zu führen: Sie müssen die Leads besser kennenlernen und diese Daten nutzen, um cleverere Marketingka

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Litmus Live 2019: The Topics We Want to See On Stage

Litmus

It’s official: Litmus Live 2019 is coming to London, Boston, and San Francisco. We pride ourselves on creating a community-driven conference. All three events are attended by some of the most passionate email geeks in the world. Perhaps more importantly, the speakers in all three cities are pulled from the community, too. The folks you see on stage are the same people who spend their working lives in the email weeds.

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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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How to Improve Customer Segmentation with AI

Marketing Insider Group

Accurate segmentation is one of the cornerstones of an effective marketing campaign. Segmenting or dividing your audience into groups means that you can target messages to customers with similar characteristics and needs. This personalization means that marketing messages will be more relevant to the individual reading them. With greater relevance, response rates are likely to […].

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Time to Get Schooled on Content Marketing Skills

Content Marketing Institute

Which new skills and core competencies should content marketers invest in to bridge marketing realities with the needs of tomorrow’s content consumers? We asked Content Marketing World speakers to share their thoughts. Continue reading → The post Time to Get Schooled on Content Marketing Skills appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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How social listening powers real connection with your customers

Sprout Social

This post How social listening powers real connection with your customers originally appeared on Sprout Social.

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SEO Channel Context: An Analysis of Growth Opportunities

Moz

Posted by BrankoK Too often do you see SEO analyses and decisions being made without considering the context of the marketing channel mix. Equally as often do you see large budgets being poured into paid ads in ways that seem to forget there's a whole lot to gain from catering to popular search demand. Both instances can lead to leaky conversion funnels and missed opportunity for long term traffic flows.

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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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How True Employee Engagement Leads to Genuine Employee Advocacy

Marketing Insider Group

Employees who are fully engaged in their organization tend to work harder, deliver strong results, and have a high level of satisfaction and pride in their employer. Companies that have highly engaged employees and encourage and support employee engagement outperform their peers by up to 147% in earnings per share. (Source) Employees of socially engaged […].

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New in Litmus: Automatic Notifications in Slack

Litmus

If your team uses Slack, you know how powerful the tool is. It’s where you keep in touch with your team, share project updates, and collaborate to get stuff done. At Litmus, we’re big fans of Slack, too. That’s why we’re excited to share that you can now integrate Slack and Litmus to create an even more seamless email workflow and boost your team’s productivity.

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Social media listening: Your launchpad to success on social

Sprout Social

This post Social media listening: Your launchpad to success on social originally appeared on Sprout Social.

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What a Two-Tiered SERP Means for Content Strategy - Whiteboard Friday

Moz

Posted by willcritchlow If you're a big site competing to rank for popular head terms, where's the best place to focus your content strategy? According to a hypothesis by the good folks at Distilled, the answer may lie in perfectly satisfying searcher intent. Click on the whiteboard image above to open a high resolution version in a new tab! If you haven't heard the news, the Domain Authority metric discussed in this episode will be updated on March 5th, 2019 to better correlate with Google algo

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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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A Complete Agile Marketing Definition

Marketing Insider Group

A good Agile marketing definition can be hard to come by. The tough part is that it’s a combination of two very easily misunderstood words: “Agile” and “marketing.” For those who haven’t spent a lot of time exploring its nuances, Agile comes to mean merely fast or hyper-productive. Marketers who prowl the internet for a […]. The post A Complete Agile Marketing Definition appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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How to Craft the Perfect Speaking Proposal for Litmus Live

Litmus

Each year, Litmus Live brings together a community of designers, developers, and marketers who live, breathe, and love email. Litmus Live speaks to all aspects of the email creative process: Design, code, strategy, planning, workflow, and analytics, and more. It’s also an opportunity for the community to come together to share best practices, case studies, and hands-on advice for creating innovative, on-brand campaigns that engage and delight audiences.

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Weekend Favs February 16

Duct Tape Marketing

Weekend Favs February 16 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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The Influence of Voice Search on Featured Snippets

Moz

Posted by TheMozTeam This post was originally published on the STAT blog. We all know that featured snippets provide easy-to-read, authoritative answers and that digital assistants love to say them out loud when asked questions. This means that featured snippets have an impact on voice search — bad snippets, or no snippets at all, and digital assistants struggle.

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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