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5 Steps for Marketers to Prepare for the Coming Cookie Disruption

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Is there any connection between a marketer and a 4-year-old kid? Guess what? They both love cookies. Marketers have been tracking website visitors, logins, shopping carts, and more with these cookies. But lately, cookies, these tiny text files with small pieces of data, are in real danger. Google announced the end of third-party cookies on its Chrome browser.

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What is Twitter Spaces? [+Why Marketers Should Care]

Hubspot Marketing

Throughout the last few months, Twitter's been experimenting with a new feature called Twitter Spaces. And now, the highly-discussed feature is finally available to all account holders with more than 600 followers. Spaces, which allows Twitter users to listen to and participate in public audio conversations , entered its beta test shortly after the launch and $100-million valuation of the app Clubhouse -- which similarly offers an audio chat room experience.

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What a Unique Selling Proposition Really Means & Why Your Business MUST Have One

Neil Patel

If you’re interested in business and marketing, at some point you’ll learn about the need to have a unique selling proposition. The Entrepreneur.com encyclopedia defines a unique selling proposition as follows: The factor or consideration presented by a seller as the reason that one product or service is different from and better than that of the competition.

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7 Ways to Repurpose Content and Grow Your Customer Base

Content Marketing Institute

No matter how large your team, repurposing can be the solution to lighten the content creation workload. It’s also a good way to get your content in front of more people in formats they might prefer better. Continue reading → The post 7 Ways to Repurpose Content and Grow Your Customer Base appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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How to Master Media Relations: Targeting, Tailoring, Timing

Speaker: Karen Swim, APR

Relevance is the currency of modern media relations—and personalization is how you earn it. In this new webinar with industry leader Karen Swim, APR, we'll explore proven strategies for precision targeting and crafting personalized pitches that resonate with journalists and build stronger relationships over time. You’ll also learn how to ensure your media lists are accurate and up to date, craft outreach that gets responses, and streamline your workflow without sacrificing quality.

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Management Strategies for Developing an Effective Remote Work Culture

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

We are still in the grips of a new working world, making it essential we continue to work from home if we can. We have already adapted to a world where remote teams have become the norm but ensuring our teams are effective involves a new approach to management. Keeping teams motivated, productive , and empowered in their work can be difficult from afar but there are strategies you can put in place to support your team and ensure your business continues to run smoothly.

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19 Strategies That’ll Help You Become an Influencer

Neil Patel

Interest in influencer marketing has skyrocketed 90x since 2013. And I hesitate to pat myself on the back, but I’m recognized as an influencer in the digital marketing space. But how? Why? In this article, we’ll go over how I became one and how to become an influencer in your own field. 1. Start by Becoming an Influencer in a Niche Field. The reason you need a niche is to start out as a micro influencer in your particular niche.

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The Complete Guide to Lifecycle Marketing

Hubspot Marketing

Savvy marketers know it's rare to reel in customers at the first encounter with a brand. Winning people over takes time, thoughtful touchpoints, and a whole lot of trust. Fortunately, there's a strategy that includes all of these and more. It's called lifecycle marketing, and it's how companies attract and retain customers beyond that impulse purchase.

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How to Relate to Your Audience with Empathy in Content Marketing

Marketing Insider Group

Consistent empathy is a challenge even for the best of us. Humans are naturally selfish as a survival tool to delegate our attention. But for marketing material? Empathy is a foreign concept. The idea of a brand’s marketing expressing empathy almost seems laughable: Marketing exists to generate money and sales by convincing people to buy stuff. It’s the antithesis of empathy, really.

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How to Use UTM Parameters to Track Social Media Success

Hootsuite

UTM parameters are a simple, straightforward, and reliable way to track traffic online. They’re not affected by changes to third-party cookies or the Facebook pixel. And they work with Google Analytics. If you’re sending any traffic at all to your web properties from your social accounts, UTM codes should be a critical part of your marketing toolkit.

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AI In The Aisles: The Executives Guide To Better In-Store Experiences

Speaker: Steve Worthy, MBA

The rapid rise of AI-powered displays, touchless technology, and sensory marketing is reshaping the future of in-store engagement. Yet for many retail executives, the real challenge is not identifying new tools - it is knowing which signals to trust, which inputs to prioritize, and how to architect decisions that elevate in-store leadership rather than dilute it.

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Landing Page: What is it, Examples, Tips & Best Practices

Neil Patel

A well-designed landing page can greatly increase conversions for your PPC or email marketing campaigns. Rather than directing visitors from those sources to your general website (where they may have a hard time finding what they’re looking for), you can direct them to a specifically designed landing page that steers them in exactly the right direction.

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The marketer’s guide to Instagram Reels

Sprout Social

Social media platforms are always changing, evolving and adding new ways to create and share content, and the latest addition every marketer needs to learn about is Instagram Reels. While Instagram’s platform already offers its regular feed, Instagram Stories and IGTV , it has now introduced yet another facet of its app. To learn more about what Instagram Reels are and how your brand can take advantage of this new feature, we’ve put together a comprehensive guide.

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6 Steps to Help You Decide Whether to Optimize Your Failed Content

Content Marketing Institute

In between the content pieces that hit the mark, you’ve probably published a few that didn’t. Is it ever worth spending time to optimize those duds? These six steps will help you decide. Continue reading → The post 6 Steps to Help You Decide Whether to Optimize Your Failed Content appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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How Conversion Funnels Create a Better Customer Journey + How to Optimize Yours

Hubspot Marketing

Conversion funnels are a fundamental concept in sales. Personally, I like to visualize the funnel as that big scary slide you wanted to try as a kid. You saw your friends whizzing down, which sparked your interest. You watched how much fun they were having, doing your research. And then the benefits of having fun outweighed your fear, so you climbed up and flew down.

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Engage Better, Gift Smarter, Win Big: Events That Deliver ROI

Speaker: Hanan Polinovski, Events Manager and David Brown, Sr. Marketing & Events Lead

Are your events living up to expectations? Are you getting quality leads from your sponsorships? Have you ever wondered if that branded notebook actually makes an impact? Get ready to transform your event strategy! Join event marketing pros Hanan Polinovski from Printfection and David Brown from Bonusly for a fast-paced webinar about turning your event efforts into serious ROI.

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A/B Testing: Definition, How it Works, Examples & Tools

Neil Patel

A/B testing is a fantastic method for figuring out the best online promotional and marketing strategies for your business. It can be used to test everything from website copy to sales emails to search ads. While it can be time-consuming, the advantages of A/B testing are enough to offset the additional time it takes. Well-planned tests can make a huge difference in the effectiveness of your marketing efforts.

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Social commerce: How it works and why you should care in 2021

Sprout Social

Online shopping is going social. Social commerce features are emerging across a number of platforms, creating new opportunities for brands big and small. The COVID-19 pandemic put further strain on brick and mortar businesses. Now executives are all in on digital transformation. . How can you strategically take advantage of this new revenue opportunity?

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Email modules: How to actually scale unique emails with confidence

Litmus

You might’ve heard about modular email templates for years but haven’t made the jump. Or maybe you’re new to the idea. So what exactly are email modules and should you use them? The simple answer is yes, and unlike other questions in email, there’s no “it depends.”. 52% of email teams spend two or more weeks to produce an email from beginning to end according to our State of Email Workflows report.

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5 Lessons We Learned from These Famous Rebrands

Hubspot Marketing

It can be difficult (if not impossible) to create a brand that remains fresh, relevant, and inspiring years — or even decades — post-creation. Just consider Dunkin' Donuts: the brand, first established in 1973, recently shifted its focus to coffee — and, to demonstrate the shift, dropped the 'Donuts' in the name. The rebrand makes sense. Dunkin's consumers' preferences, tastes, and style have likely changed quite a bit in the roughly 50 years since the first Dunkin' was introduced.

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B2B SEO vs. LMO: Whats the Difference and Why It Matters

Speaker: Speakers:

Brace yourself, B2B marketers. Your beloved SEO is getting a makeover, and its name is Language Model Optimization (LMO). What does that mean for your digital strategy? Join Jesse McFarland of SpearPoint Marketing on the next B2B Growth Show as we unravel the mystery and get you prepped for the next evolution in search. Here’s what you’ll walk away with: A clear breakdown of SEO vs.

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How to Fix Schema Validation Errors

Neil Patel

Everyone wants to log in to Google Search Console to find their website is error-free and running perfectly. This is rarely the case, unfortunately. The good news is schema validation error notifications offer important information you can use to fix your site. Good SEO is about consistently taking care of the small details, and that’s exactly what Google Search Console errors allow you to do.

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How to prove (and grow) your B2B social media ROI

Sprout Social

Social media is a crucial channel for B2B marketers. That said, are you able to prove the results of your efforts in plain English? Although social is a prime place for content distribution and lead generation, only 23% of marketers use social data to measure their ROI. Yikes. Just like any other marketing channel, you need to be able to spell out why social is worth investing in.

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Why Does Most B2B Content Marketing Suck?

Marketing Insider Group

Let’s get real about B2B content marketing. Most of it sucks. It’s full of jargon, self-promotion, and fluff. It doesn’t add value to your audience and can seem completely irrelevant. The truth is, your content doesn’t have to boring or stuffy. It needs to engage, inspire, and connect. In this post, we’ll review why B2B content marketing sucks and how to improve it so that it delivers a true ROI (return on investment).

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Want More Method and Less Madness? Check Your Content Operations

Content Marketing Institute

People, processes, and technology (also known as content operations) make up the machine that turns your strategy into effective content marketing. Try this basic blueprint to set up a new content operations infrastructure or fine-tuning the one you’ve got. Continue reading → The post Want More Method and Less Madness? Check Your Content Operations appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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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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How to Run Nonprofit Marketing Ads

Neil Patel

One of a for-profit business’s best investments is often their online marketing strategy. Is the same for true for nonprofits? Let’s take a look at how nonprofit marketing strategy is different from for-profit strategy and how nonprofit corporations may be able to better reach their goals by further leveraging digital marketing. What Makes Nonprofit Marketing Different From Marketing in Other Fields?

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Amplify and uplift: How brands can acknowledge Asian Pacific American Heritage Month on social

Sprout Social

As an Asian American woman working in marketing, I’m conflicted about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month (APAHM). While I like the idea celebrating the Asian and Pacific Islander community, it’s hard not to feel like APAHM is another box for organizations to tick on their laundry list of diversity milestones. That is, if they remember to acknowledge it at all.

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18 Lessons We’ve Learned from a Year of Virtual Marketing Events

Marketing Insider Group

Over the last year, the pandemic forced many organizations to shift from in-person to all-virtual marketing events. As a result, businesses have had to become more innovative to figure out how to deal with never-before-seen problems on the fly. It’s been challenging, no doubt, but it’s also taught us a lot about our ability to think outside the box and adapt to unforeseen circumstances.

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Email client market share in April 2021: What to focus on

Litmus

When we last reported on the email client market share , the big news was that Apple’s iPhone continued its increase in market share. Apple Mail is the dominant player in the mobile space (and on desktop, too), while Google’s Gmail is the king of webmail. But how does that hold up over the last month? We dive deep in our annual email client market share blog post.

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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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How to Launch a Business With PPC Ads

Neil Patel

You came up with an idea, did your research, maybe even found some funding. You are ready to launch a business — but how do you get people to your website or store? Pay-per-click (PPC) ads are one of the most effective ways to drive growth for your new business. Unlike brand building, content marketing, and social media, PPC ads can drive traffic today.

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What the Sprout Spotlight awards taught us about the state of social marketing

Sprout Social

Last year, the team and I launched our first people’s-choice awards program, the Sprout Spotlight Awards to recognize the teams, creators, community managers and strategists behind some of the best brands on social. We set out to celebrate the people behind brand handles through five award categories: Always On: Celebrated those who knew when to unplug.

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The Ultimate List of Content Amplification Tools

Marketing Insider Group

Creating and publishing content are only the beginning. Now, you have to distribute it and expand its reach for maximum exposure. That’s the process of content amplification, and there are many ways to achieve it. It’s not just one strategy; it’s a combination of many channels and tactics, all of which you can seamlessly carry out with content amplification tools.