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4 Practices That Have Helped Me Overcome Imposter Syndrome as a Business Owner

Buffer Marketing

Many people battle with imposter syndrome—mine was compounded by the fact that I dreamed of starting my own coaching company in my non-native language.  I was born and raised in Peru, and even though I attended a bilingual school from the age of five, the idea of taking the plunge of building a business in my non-native language filled me with fear and discomfort.

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Email Marketing Tactics That Work

Social Media Examiner

Wondering if your email marketing needs an upgrade? Curious what works in 2024? In this article, we’ll explore the latest email marketing best practices based on 6 billion emails sent annually. Why Should Marketers Focus on Email Marketing? Email marketing is far from dead. While one of the oldest digital marketing channels, it continues to […] The post Email Marketing Tactics That Work appeared first on Social Media Examiner.

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What is Referral Marketing, And How Do I Use It?

Aspiration Marketing

Word-of-mouth referrals are incredibly influential, and there’s little question why. Consider this: your friend recommends a cool coffee shop in the area or a shoe brand for your newfound running hobby. Because this recommendation isn’t coming from an ad or the business itself, you deem it to be more authentic, and you’re more likely to follow it. But, as a business, how do you encourage customers to recommend your organization this way?

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How to keep your marketing automation campaigns from ruining your week

Martech

Marketing automation is a great tool. It allows companies to set up campaigns that run on their own without further human intervention. This saves time and greatly expands what your marketing team can accomplish with limited resources. Unfortunately, marketing automation can also go wrong somewhat spectacularly. In this article I’ll provide a list of things to check to make sure your automated programs aren’t giving you or your company a big black eye.

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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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The Scope of Digital Marketing in 2024: Why to Choose?

Aspiration Marketing

Digital marketing is a buzzword that's all the talk in the professional world. Existing businesses are already setting up their online websites, and new startups are using this medium as a starting point for business. The attraction of digital marketing comes from the fact that if done right, it can generate a decent amount of revenue. I suggest you enter this field, as it is a future-proof industry.

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How Marketing Strategists Can Become In-House Content Creators

Social Media Examiner

Are you an agency strategist? Do you also enjoy content creation? Wondering how to balance both roles effectively? In this article, you'll discover how to embrace a hybrid creator-strategist role and how to charge for your creative services. Defining the Modern Content Creator and Evolving Social Media Marketing Strategist Content creators and social media managers […] The post How Marketing Strategists Can Become In-House Content Creators appeared first on Social Media Examiner.

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Why Should I Hire A Marketing Agency For My Small Business?

InTouch Marketing

Hiring a marketing agency to help you grow your business could be the best decision you make. Look at the comparison to hiring an internal employee.

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Innovative Marketing Strategies: The Rise of Off-Site Retail Media

ConsumerTalk

TripleLift and eMarketer recently released survey results highlighting the increasing importance of off-site advertising in retail media strategies.

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AI in retail media? Majority of marketers are optimistic

Martech

Marketers are ready to embrace AI in the retail media space. A majority (53%) of marketers believe AI will “significantly enhance” the way shoppers are targeted and served relevant ads, according to a survey of 200 CPG advertisers commissioned by in-store media technology company Cooler Screens. Another 37% of marketers said AI’s impact on the space will be “moderate, improving some aspects [of retail media], but not transformative.

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New White Paper: Breaking into Publishing – What It Takes to Write, Produce, and Market Your Book

Trade Press Services Newsletter

Have you ever dreamt about writing and publishing a book? Many aspiring authors have a story or message they want to share with the world but don’t know where to start. Writing a book takes a monumental investment of time, energy, and resources. For many, the dream of finishing a manuscript and publishing it can seem out of reach. Still, millions of aspiring authors strive to embark on a literary journey at some point in their lives.

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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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Google's March 2024 Core Update Targets Low-Quality Content

Aspiration Marketing

Google's algorithm just got a significant upgrade! Their March 2024 core update and new spam policies mean one thing: it's time to ditch the shortcuts and focus on creating content that genuinely crushes it for your audience. We're breaking down the changes to allow you to future-proof your strategy and dominate those search results.

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Google releasing massive search quality enhancements in March 2024 core update and multiple spam updates

Search Engine Land

Google is unleashing multiple measures aimed at improving the quality of its search results beginning today. Google is releasing the March 2024 core update and a number of spam updates (aka March 2024 spam update). Also, Google’s helpful content system has been incorporated into its overall core ranking system. In addition, Google announced several new and updated spam policies that it will begin enforcing through automated algorithms and manual actions.

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How to assess your organization’s AI readiness with the 5P framework

Martech

As organizations grapple with the complexities of AI adoption, a strategic framework becomes essential for assessing readiness and ensuring successful implementation. Before introducing even more tech into your stack, you must know what you’re working with. How confident are you with your team’s readiness for change? Can you also sustain those changes?

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6 SEO Content Mistakes, Myths, and Misunderstandings To Rethink This Year

Content Marketing Institute

Evolving SEO practices, algorithm changes, and intense content competition make optimizing your content harder (and at higher stakes) than ever. Don’t let these SEO mistakes and misunderstandings knock you off your game.

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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 Buyer's Journey: Best Content for the Awareness Stage

Aspiration Marketing

Understanding the buyer’s journey is critical for success when creating marketing-driven content. After all, if you give a first-time visitor content designed for someone ready to purchase, you could lose a customer before they even show interest. This is why crafting content targeted for each stage is so important , starting with awareness.

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Google issues search ranking penalties through manual actions

Search Engine Land

The day after Google released its new search spam policies , including the March 2024 spam and core updates, Google began penalizing websites that the search company felt violated those spam policies. The result of these search penalties was that some sites were completely or partially de-listed from Google’s search results, and all or part of their search traffic was wiped out.

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3 ways to be an adaptive leader in an agile world

Martech

As a leader, you must be agile enough to pivot as you learn new information about the marketplace, your customers and disruptive new technology. We know with certainty that we’re in uncertain times and what we know today will be different tomorrow. It’s critical to constantly re-evaluate how you market and sell our products to customers because what worked last year, or even last month, may no longer be relevant.

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50+ Blogs, Newsletters, Podcasts, and Video Channels Favored by Marketers

Content Marketing Institute

You’re busy enough doing marketing. You don’t have time to search for content that can help. So here are over 50 favorite blogs, newsletters, podcasts, and YouTube channels recommended by your content and marketing peers.

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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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What is Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC), And How Do I Improve It?

Aspiration Marketing

Implementing a successful marketing strategy requires mastering the intricacies of customer acquisition cost (CAC). CAC is a metric that unveils the financial investment needed to acquire a new customer, serving as a guiding beacon for businesses seeking efficient growth strategies.

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Google Business Profiles tools are temporarily unavailable

Search Engine Land

Several features and tools within Google Business Profiles are currently temporarily unavailable. These features include the ability to check verification status, manage appeals and manage reviews. Google said they are working on recovering these features. What is not working. Google said that some of its support tools are impacted by some outage of sorts.

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Goodbye to cookies: Digital advertising’s leap in the dark

Martech

Can it be that it was all so simple then? Mozilla deprecated third-party cookies in its Firefox browser in 2018; Apple did the same for Safari in 2019. In January 2020 Google announced it would deprecate cookies in the Chrome browser, and here we are, more than four years later. Deprecation has been postponed again and again. It’s now set to happen in the second half of this year — and indeed one percent of Chrome’s 2.65 billion default users have already been permitted to opt out.

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Guide to Calls-To-Action (CTAs) in Email Marketing

Litmus

Every email has a purpose. Whether it’s to inform users of a product update, an upcoming event, or the latest offers—every campaign should have a primary goal. In most cases, the goal is to get subscribers to do something. Enter: calls-to-action (CTAs). CTAs help guide your subscriber to the primary action you want them to take. In this blog, we’ll cover CTA best practices, including: Why is a call-to-action important?

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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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7 Best Productivity Systems to Simplify Your Workflow (+My Favorite Workflows)

Hubspot Marketing

I’m a content writer by night and a Head of Partnerships by day, and in my world, being productive is everything. No scheduling or a lack of project management leads to overdue articles, failed partnership opportunities, high pressure, and stress. We’ve all been there, recovering from zero productivity. Productivity systems help develop a sustainable work-life balance and prepare for working sprints when needed.

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Shifts in data privacy are forcing a return to marketing fundamentals

Search Engine Land

If we’re not already, we will be facing a reckoning in the world of search marketing. Over the last several decades, our industry has grown and flourished on an overabundance of data. Search marketing is a heavily data-centric world. Hyper-specific targeting and personalized advertising tactics are the norm and pillars on which strategy, budgets and team structures are based.

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Number of women in marketing up, but salary and seniority remain problems

Martech

The marketing industry is in an interesting position when it comes to women in the workforce. Women hold 60% of all North American marketing jobs, according to data from LinkedIn , and women now hold 52% of CMO roles. But modern marketing roles are incredibly diverse in their nature. As marketers know, the roles in the modern marketing organization include people who analyze data, create content, develop platforms, buy media and more.

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Why marketers can’t ignore dark social media

SmartBrief - Marketing

Amidst tightening budgets in 2024, marketing teams are under extra scrutiny to prove that their work contributes to the bottom line. One area marketers can’t dismiss is dark social media activity. According to Capterra research , marketers say nearly half of their brand’s web traffic can be attributed to dark social channels. Dark social media refers to the private sharing of content through channels such as Facebook groups, Instagram DMs and WhatsApp messages.

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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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Using the Four Buckets of Sales Enablement to Get Results with Maryanne McWhirter

The LeadG2 Blog

In this episode, we’re talking about how to get real results by utilizing all four buckets of sales enablement: strategy, content, technology, and training. You’ll hear us ask questions like, what are the key components of sales enablement? What problems or needs are people trying to solve when implementing a sales enablement initiative? And what are the benefits of having a solid sales enablement strategy in place?

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Bing Webmaster Tools gains new IndexNow Insights & top SEO insights report

Search Engine Land

Microsoft updated Bing Webmaster Tools with new helpful insights and reports to help you with your site performance within Bing and Search in general. Bing Webmaster Tools has a new IndexNow Insights report that shows you more than just the URLs submitted to IndexNow. Bing also added a new top SEO insights report that shows you your top SEO issues. Fabrice Canel, the Principal Product Manager at Microsoft Bing, announced this today at PubCon and published the news on the Bing blog.

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Frequency testing: The key to unlocking more email revenue

Martech

If you could increase your revenue from email just by sending messages more often, you’d do it, right? So, what’s stopping you from communicating more often? To be fair, that’s a bit of a rhetorical question. I know why many email marketers hesitate to send more messages and it has nothing to do with revenue. It’s because, once upon a time, someone on the email team set up a test to determine what would happen if the brand increased email frequency from one campaign per w

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Balancing social resources across multiple business lines

Sprout Social

Nelnet is a student loan servicing company—but they’re so much more than that. The company has business lines including student loan servicing, private student loans, improving K-12 school management through service and technology, renewable energy, encouraging a more educated workforce, and telecommunications. In total, they have 64 social media accounts and hundreds of thousands of followers across platforms.

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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