Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 25, 2017

Author: Ellen Gomes Social media is one of the most powerful ways to reach and engage with your buyers today. Because it’s almost universally used—by consumers and brands—it’s one of the most effective (and perhaps cost-effective) channels to connect with your audience. Social media marketing offers marketers a vast opportunity to engage with their buyers, across the entire customer lifecycle, on the platforms they actively tune in to for information.

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Sprout Social

JANUARY 23, 2017

Hashtags are much more than just a way to make Tweets and Instagram posts more entertaining. You’ve probably seen your fair share of random hashtags thrown onto the end of Tweets and Instagram captions that seem to serve no real purpose. But when used correctly, hashtags can be one of the most effective ways to track your social media marketing campaigns, brand influence and a lot more.

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Hubspot Marketing

JANUARY 23, 2017

What was your most embarrassing office etiquette moment? For me, it was when I started to watch a hilarious video of a sheep screaming like a human and quickly realized my headphones weren’t plugged in. I frantically scrambled for the mute button on my keyboard while my distracted coworkers laughed at my mishap. Sound familiar? Since then, I don't watch videos at work unless they don’t require sound.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 25, 2017

You write really compelling content, create perfect images and hone overall website design to perfection to get more traffic to your site. But how is it possible that still a few of those visitors are converting into leads and clients? That’s the question! Everyone on the web is in a big rush. Whether they’re browsing […]. The post Why It’s Important to Understand the Expectations of Your Site Visitors appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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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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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 27, 2017

Author: Steve Lucas You’ve heard it a thousand times: digital transformation has shifted the way companies do business. As a part of this shift, buyer expectations have changed. As a marketer, there are dozens of ways to reach your customer, but the trick is finding out how, when, and why they want to be engaged. Now, a thoughtful, personal, seamless, experience is what customers crave.

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Sprout Social

JANUARY 25, 2017

Social media is great for branding and customer service , but don’t overlook its value for lead generation as well. One of the best ways to find and generate leads is through social listening. The great thing about using social media is it gives you the ability to find qualified sales leads, not just random people who might be interested in what you’re offering.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 26, 2017

Content marketing should be one of the most effective means for advisers to reach their target audience. But marketing directors are clearly not exploiting this opportunity to its full potential. Our Value of B2B Thought Leadership Survey reveals why. The post Three Reasons Why Your B2B Thought Leadership Fails appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 23, 2017

Author: Travis Kaufman As key drivers of the revenue team, marketing and sales are constantly looking for the next innovative method to get a competitive edge—particularly in generating revenue for the business. One method that continues to pique interest is intent data. Having created numerous products that leverage massive volumes of data in the marketing and sales space, we get asked many questions about how to best leverage intent data.

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Sprout Social

JANUARY 24, 2017

Let’s not kid ourselves–it’s nice to see those Instagram alerts saying your business has a new follower. While the feeling might not get old, the thought of knowing how to easily manage your Instagram followers might be daunting. Don’t let that love for a new follower grow stale. As a business, you want to continually see new customers interacting and engaging with your Instagram account.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 26, 2017

How to Diagnose Your Traffic Issues with These SEO Tools written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Believe it or not, SEO is not a rocket science. In most cases, it comes down to the most obvious common sense things, like easy-to-understand website structure, well-written relevant copy, carefully picked descriptive page titles, etc. Some more complicated problems may occur (those that require professional help) from time to time, but in most cases, you can identify and fix things w

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 23, 2017

Sometimes browsing the latest trends in marketing can be like walking through a carnival. There are plenty of half-baked ideas, and digital obsessions beefed up with content marketing lingo like an MMA fighter on steroids. But not the meaty answers that you seek. Do you feel like this? Then it may be time to get […]. The post Find New Customers But Keep The Old – One Is Silver And The Other Is Gold appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 26, 2017

Author: Rick Siegfried Customer churn, or churn rate, refers to the pace at which customers leave your company in a given period. The ideal churn rate would obviously be 0% (i.e. 100% customer retention), as a high churn rate indicates not only a loss of customers but an underutilization of your existing customer base. Any company that is losing customers is also losing out on valuable cross-sell and upsell opportunities—it is essentially hemorrhaging revenue.

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Sprout Social

JANUARY 27, 2017

More and more brands are incorporating company culture into their social strategies. This is a great tactic for humanizing your brand while simultaneously making your employees feel valued. However, it can be challenging for social media marketers to document multiple team perspectives to provide a wholistic story. This week at #SproutChat , we discussed incorporating company culture in a business’ social content strategy.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 24, 2017

The Bots Are Coming and They Will Take Few Prisoners written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. I wrote recently about disruption – and its impending escalation. Not that the idea is that new, it’s just come into hyper-focus. You could make a case that the recent divisive election in the U.S. was as much a result based 0n disruption as it was on politics.

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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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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 24, 2017

There are a lot of articles saying the best way to plan your marketing strategies is to utilize big data. And these articles all have a point. Big data can be a powerful resource for marketers when building a campaign as you are basing decisions off of hard data and not your own assumptions. There […]. The post Overcoming the Challenges of Big Data for the Small Business Marketer appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Zumvu

JANUARY 21, 2017

Even though there are some similarities, each of them differs with the kind of business you run, the budget you have, your goals and whom you are targeting.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 24, 2017

Author: Chris Gillespie There are nearly 17 million Google search results for “ marketing and sales alignment ”–too many in my mind, given that they all sound pretty much the same. Most of them beseech marketers and salespeople to “just get along,” but while they advertise “shockingly simple secrets,” most of them are troublingly vague. How, for example, is one supposed to “utilize effective sales collaboration and engagement techniques?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 27, 2017

Augmented Reality Will Put Local SEO On Steroids written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Augmented reality has recently grown from the far-flung corners of geek world to become a surging phenomenon that is threatening to burst into popular culture. Pokemon Go, an AR based gaming app, generated huge traction subsequent to its July 2016 launch.

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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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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 21, 2017

Exploring intuition is a strange thing. You start going down deep, dark rabbit holes of your mind. It’s like … what even IS a human, man, yanno? As a result, I’m getting better at indentifying the moment in a story when a person begins to trust their intuition. It always comes through with an unsatisfactory or mystical answer: “I dunno how I did X.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 23, 2017

This is a two-part series. There are various definitions about Customer Micro-moments that exist. This series that explores an increasing understanding of the customer as technology and customer behavior evolves and what business must do to keep up with this evolution. We now live in an experience economy. Content creators, influencers, media platforms and advertisers understand the fundamental […].

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 24, 2017

A friend sent me this great article in WIRED by illustrator and author Chris Niemman. The piece is a beautiful and moving look into the creative process and moving from very good work to exceptional. As you’d expect, it’s full of existential questions and the search for meaning. I loved all of it, except this… The idea here is that.

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Marketing Insider Group

JANUARY 27, 2017

For the 107th episode of The Marketing Book Podcast, I interviewed Pamela Wilson, author of “Master Content Marketing: A Simple Strategy to Cure the Blank Page Blues and Attract a Profitable Audience.” As the readers of this blog know, content marketing is how marketing happens today. You know you want to use it, but you […]. The post Weekend Reading: “Master Content Marketing” by Pamela Wilson appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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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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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2017

Entrepreneurial Lessons Through Craft Beer written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with John Couture. Creating an entirely new category of business has its upsides and downsides. On one hand, you get to take advantage of your unique position in messaging and publicity. Of course, you may also find that you spend a whole lot of extra time getting people to understand your concept.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 21, 2017

Weekend Favs January 21 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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