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When Lead Management and Dating Align: Get Your Prospects to Swipe Right

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Alright, alright, alright. It’s 2017 and the dating scene is now digital. With Tinder making more than 26 million matches a day, it is time for marketing and sales departments to take a play from the online dating handbook. Think about how your marketing and sales teams are engaging digitally with prospects. Would you “swipe right” for those messages?

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How to Infuse ‘Know,’ ‘Like,’ and ‘Trust’ Into Your Content

Content Marketing Institute

You’ve read the research that says people prefer to do business with people they know, like, and trust, right? Me, too. Yet whenever I hear that advice, I think, “that sounds nice,” but what does it really mean to know, like, and trust someone? And what does it take for that person to know, like, or trust your brand? And, more important, how do you translate that understanding into your content?

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How to Create a Content Marketing Strategy with Brand Personality

Marketing Insider Group

What makes a brand’s content distinctive? If you take a look at some of the organizations with the most successful content marketing strategies, from startups to global businesses, the best of the best are the ones that properly reflect the unique personality of their brand. Sephora’s use of user-generated content – their Beauty Insider Community is impressive […].

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[Infographic] Where B2B Marketers Turn When the Easy Road Ends | Traackr

Traackr

Take a stroll through the evolution of influencer marketing in B2B technology, and go deep into the specific challenges and solutions for technology brands.

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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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5 Tips to Prevent a Social Media Nightmare

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

There are all kinds of situations that can go wrong for a brand to trigger a crisis. Whether it’s a poorly timed tweet, a typo, or even a scandal, you need to be ready to deal with a crisis. It is equally important to prevent one from happening. The best way to do this is to plan in advance. Having a strategy for both preventing a crisis and reducing the impact of one can significantly help.

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How to Make Your Business More Referable

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Make Your Business More Referable written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. “How can I make my business more referable?” I get asked this question all the time but the question people should be asking is “who do people refer?” Having the answer to that question will better prepare you to take advantage of this powerful marketing tactic.

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A Data-Driven, Content-Led Approach to Beauty Influencer Identification | Traackr

Traackr

Identifying which beauty influencers you want to work with can be challenging. Here are 3 ways to find influencers based on contextually relevant topics.

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13 Marketing Tactics to Boost Your Event ROI

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Have you ever spent months designing and building your booth to showcase your incredible products and wow the trade show crowds? Perhaps you’ve devoted days to perfecting every word and graphic for your presentation at a conference. Then, despite nailing your booth or presentation, you’ve been disappointed in the results. The event did not produce the return on investment (ROI) you had anticipated.

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10 Reasons Podcast Guesting is the #1 Killer Content Marketing Tactic of All Time

Duct Tape Marketing

10 Reasons Podcast Guesting is the #1 Killer Content Marketing Tactic of All Time written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Whoa. This is a bold statement, but hear me out. I have been earning a living from search engine optimization for over 12 years and I’ve tried every tactic at one time or another. Ever since Google started dropping algorithmic bombs around 2011 (think Panda, Penguin, and so on), SEO industry behavior has changed.

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How to Boost Word-of-Mouth and Sales for Your Ecommerce Business This Fall

Marketing Insider Group

For many ecommerce business owners, fall is the biggest and most profitable time of year. As consumers approach big holidays like Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, New Year’s, and others, and start marking their calendars for Black Friday and Cyber Monday, it’s a great time for ecommerce businesses to start thinking about how to get the most […].

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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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Multi-Channel Publishing From Within Engage

Rock Content

Can you repeat that? Engaging with your audience should be fun. But as any Social Media or Community Engagement Manager knows, it can sometimes be stressful, hectic and unpredictable. Despite the chaos, there’s a certain level of excitement associated with reaching out and connecting with your audience. When you’re able to make a positive impact, either by helping someone with your product, changing someone’s mind about a negative perception, or ensuring that your customers feel heard, you feel

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The Importance of Storytelling in the Engagement Economy

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Do you plan to send out more marketing messages next year than you did this year? If you’re like most marketers I talk to, you answered “yes.” We love to send out more marketing messages, create more content, print more brochures, and promote our products and services more now than we ever have before. And yet, how often do you receive a marketing message from a brand you use that you actually wanted?

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Monetize Your Expertise and Thrive

Duct Tape Marketing

Monetize Your Expertise and Thrive written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Dorie Clark. Podcast Transcript. My guest for this week’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is Dorie Clark. She is a marketing and strategy consultant as well as a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review, Entrepreneur, and Forbes.

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Marketing ROI: Big Bucks or a Total Bust?

Marketing Insider Group

Connecting the Data Dots to Improve Marketing ROI Are your campaigns driving big bucks or are they a total bust? That’s probably the most important question we have to answer as marketers. To determine this, you have to connect the dots and unlock the value of the data. However, depending on the current state of […]. The post Marketing ROI: Big Bucks or a Total Bust?

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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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Sports Marketing: 7 Steps to Drive Audience Engagement

Rock Content

Sports connect many of us. We wear the same hats, shirts, and of course, connect digitally to our favorite teams and players. And while audiences continue to be broken up with the addition of more and more digital channels, this also allows sports teams around the globe to reach their die hard fans, as well as the casual ones, in new ways. “The biggest change I’ve seen for teams is their willingness to post original content intended solely for the digital space,” said Anthony Herron, a for

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Why Not To Be a Data-Driven Marketer

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Marketers: it’s time to stop thinking about data. Hear me out. There is no question that the B2B industry, like much of the rest of the business world, has already entered what The Economist has termed “the data economy.” Today, data is one of the most valuable assets a company can have. Perhaps the most vivid, real-world illustration of this fact is how the scramble over data resources is driving some of the biggest acquisitions of companies in the tech industry.

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Here’s a question – is your PR working?

Duct Tape Marketing

Here’s a question – is your PR working? written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. As small business owners or marketers, we all know full well how important it is to put time aside for PR. Investing in your public profile helps with generating inquiries, creates awareness and can lead to a variety of opportunities. I’m making sense, aren’t I?

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Weekend Reading: “The New Way to Market for Manufacturing” by Bruce McDuffee

Marketing Insider Group

For the 143rd episode of The Marketing Book Podcast (and Manufacturing Day), I interviewed Bruce McDuffee, author of The New Way to Market for Manufacturing: Innovation That Grows Your Business. When it comes to marketing and sales, the biggest problem manufacturers have is their product. The product itself is not a problem. The problem is […].

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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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B2B Marketing Trends and What They Really Mean

Marketing Insider Group

2017 is flying by. It’s time to review the key B2B marketing trends that have popped up so that you can evaluate the success of your B2B strategy. Remember, it’s all about context. It’s nearly useless to know about the trends if you’re not fully aware of what they mean for you and your company. […]. The post B2B Marketing Trends and What They Really Mean appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Why Net Promoter Score Is the Best Metric for Long-term Growth

Marketing Insider Group

It’s easy to get caught up in website traffic numbers, conversion rates, and that essential ROI of your marketing campaigns. These metrics are useful for demonstrating where you are now and the quality and effectiveness of the strategies you used to get to this point. But, they can’t show you everything. What they’re failing to illuminate […].

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Benefits of Agile Marketing: 21 Stats You Need to Know

Marketing Insider Group

If you’re running a marketing team based on Agile principles, looking to get all of the benefits of Agile marketing, you’re probably spending a lot of your days agonizing over the choice between what is right and what is easy. Making the right choice, the Agile choice, is often tough. It’s tempting to fall back […]. The post Benefits of Agile Marketing: 21 Stats You Need to Know appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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The Great Lie We’re Told About Doing Exceptional Work

Marketing Insider Group

This is an excerpt from my weekly Unthinkable newsletter, which shares thoughts about conventional thinking at work, plus stories and ideas to break from it. In the Era of Advice, it’s never been a better time to think for yourself. So you want to do exceptional work. Great! But now the question becomes: How? Well, here’s what […]. The post The Great Lie We’re Told About Doing Exceptional Work 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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Weekend Favs September 30

Duct Tape Marketing

Weekend Favs September 30 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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7 Questions to Evaluate Your Brand’s Health

Duct Tape Marketing

7 Questions to Evaluate Your Brand’s Health written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Right now, the barriers for new brands and startups to enter the market have never been lower. Want to sell stuff online? Sign up for Squarespace. Start an Etsy account. Heck, log into Craigslist. And voilà, you’ve done it. You, and ten thousand others.

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Increase Profits Through Specialization

Duct Tape Marketing

Increase Profits Through Specialization written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Philip Morgan. Podcast Transcript. My guest for this week’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is Philip Morgan. He is a consultant at Philip Morgan Consulting who focuses on specialization and helping people find their niche.

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Transcript of Monetize Your Expertise and Thrive

Duct Tape Marketing

Transcript of Monetize Your Expertise and Thrive written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Back to Podcast. Transcript. John Jantsch: Hello and welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing podcast. This is John Jantsch and my guest today is Dorie Clark. She is a marketing and strategy consultant and frequent contributor to Harvest … not Harvest, Harvard Business Review, Entrepreneur and Forbes.

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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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Transcript of Increase Profits Through Specialization

Duct Tape Marketing

Transcript of Increase Profits Through Specialization written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Back to Podcast. Transcript. John Jantsch: One of the ways to really drive up profit is to specialize, is to go into a vertical market, is to go have a niche, to get known as an expert in X, Y, or Z. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing podcast, we speak with Philip Morgan of Philip Morgan Consulting, and that’s what he does.