Hubspot Marketing

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

An art. Not a process, method, or technique. Storytelling is described as an art … the “art” of storytelling. And — like art — it requires creativity, vision, skill, and practice. Storytelling isn’t something you can grasp in one sitting, after one course. It’s a trial-and-error process of mastery. Sounds like a lot of work, right? It is, and rightfully so because storytelling has become a crucial component of the most successful marketing campaigns.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

There has been one common thread in each of my customer conversations throughout the past two years, and that is the desire to deliver—and be part of—a seamless and unforgettable end-to-end customer experience. Today, we’re one step closer to making this a reality for our thousands of customers and partners worldwide. I am thrilled to announce that Marketo has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Adobe.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Landing pages are central to every marketing strategy. Landing pages have one focus—conversions. While it’s not incredibly hard to create a landing page these days, conversions are still hard to come by. Yet for all the work you’re doing, you may be your own worst enemy, making mistakes that are costing you leads. There are […]. The post Landing Pages: The Huge Mistakes Marketers Make and How to Avoid Them appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Content Marketing Institute

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

English-speaking markets are attractive, but for most niches, they’re also the most competitive. It takes a lot to move the English-speaking needle. If you want results with less effort – and it makes sense for your audiences – think about localized markets. After all, while people may speak English as a second or third language, they’re more likely to search in their native or first language.

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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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Hubspot Marketing

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

In the fairytale Hansel and Gretel , two children drop breadcrumbs in the woods to find their way home. Nowadays, you probably don't experience too many lost-in-the-wood experiences, but I'm willing to bet you've felt frustratingly disoriented on poorly designed websites. In website design, breadcrumb navigation is a way to show your users their location and how they got there (similar to Hansel's breadcrumbs).

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

One of the biggest branding mistakes that companies can make is to not pay enough attention to their tone of voice. “Voice” sounds high-minded, doesn’t it? More suited for the literary world rather than the business world? But tone of voice just refers to how you sound in your writing. In marketing, your tone of voice can be a significant differentiator.

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Sprout Social

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Racking your brain trying to choose between an organic or paid social media strategy? Here’s a much simpler question to ask yourself: “Why not both?” Sure, the main appeal of social media is that it offers a totally free avenue for brands to grow and connect with customers. The reality, though? Social media is becoming more and more of a pay-to-play channel.

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Content Marketing Institute

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

If you could build the ideal multi-industry global conglomerate from scratch, scaling it to over 700 product families, would you let each one of those 700 product managers target the same customer separately? Of course you wouldn’t. Why then do so many enterprise brands find themselves in a similar pickle? Three years ago, the Cisco marketing team woke up to this real-life situation.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Growth hacking strategies can provide rapid results, but if your company can’t carry that momentum, all your efforts will be for naught. You can’t employ growth hacking techniques if you don’t know how they’ll work in the long run. The entire point is to increase a measurable growth target—not to grow as much as possible and sort out the details later.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Nowadays, many businesses leverage search engine optimization (SEO) to boost their credibility, visibility and trustworthiness online. With the online market being so highly competitive and oversaturated, it’s important for companies to have a reliable way to stand out and become more visible. One of the best ways to do that is through SEO. That being […].

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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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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Letting Go of Perfection in Order to Achieve Your Goals written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Petra Kolber. Podcast Transcript. This week on the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I speak with Petra Kolber. She is an expert in positive psychology and fitness, and she uses this unique background to help companies and individuals find joy, passion, and productivity.

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Bannerflow

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Singles’ Day, or 11.11, is known across East-Asia as the day to celebrate singletons as well as incredible discounts. In 2009 Alibaba began a campaign to focus on the fictional holiday and as a result, its sales have skyrocketed year on year. For the latest Singles’ Day, they raked in an astonishing $1 billion in the first five minutes. Until recently, it was predominantly Asian brands that were cashing in on this event.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Are you old enough to remember the first version of the internet? You’d do an internet search , and about 20,000 items came back as “relevant”? Maybe you searched for “cat videos” and you got website listings of all cities with the letters “c-a-t” in them, or you got a bunch of links to videos of clowns. There was no real rhyme or reason to the search results you got back.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Brand marketing is never easy. It’s a field that is part science, part art form, and part luck. It can also be one of the most capital-intensive parts of a business. That’s a big reason that you tend to see so many articles and strategies that revolve around marketing ROI – because marketing failures can […]. The post Making The Financial Case For Your Brand Marketing Plans appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

How to Add Sales to Each Stage of the Customer Journey written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. When you think of your business’s sales strategy, you may be tempted to think of it as only relating to the actual transaction where a customer pays for the good or service you offer. However, businesses today can’t think of their relationship with their customers as a linear one.

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Zumvu

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Starting an eCommerce shop is easy. With all the resources and tools available to fit the budget of site owners, creating and launching an online shop takes very little time, no coding knowledge, and doesn’t require a professional developer.

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Rock Content

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

What does a landing page consist of? Simply put, it’s a place where a web user may end up after clicking a link in a social media ad, a banner ad, or on a different web page. The structure of a landing page is often very simple—a form is placed high above the fold and is paired with an image and headline or subheadline. Below the form are a few additional opportunities to educate the user on a topic, such as bullet points, key takeaways, and maybe logos of brands that the business has alre

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Data visualizations are more than pretty pictures, although a nice graph or chart makes the data more appealing. Data visualizations should support decision-making by drawing attention to relationships among data and relationships between your data and influential factors that may not be captured in your data. Data visualizations Take a look at the graphic above. […].

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

Weekend Favs September 15 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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Zumvu

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

America is the land of opportunities, but that doesn’t mean it is the full map of the business world. If you’re among the growth-oriented entrepreneurs, the rest of the world could be your oyster.

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Rock Content

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Since the advent of digital marketing, technology has been a close friend of the industry; today, marketing rarely exists without it. Put marketing and technology together and you’ve cooked up an entire host of solutions that live beneath the colossal umbrella of “martech.”. Technology aids marketing through its vast capabilities, and has changed our entire marketing landscape—from the way we communicate and collaborate internally to the way we communicate with our audiences.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

When you think of businesses that could benefit the most from long-form content marketing, retail ecommerce brands aren’t generally the first that come to mind. But, online sellers can absolutely reap the benefits of blogging, vlogging, and other long-form in-depth content in the same way as many other brands. Longer content posts have nine-times higher […].

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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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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Transcript of Letting Go of Perfection in Order to Achieve Your Goals written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Back to Podcast. Transcript. This transcript is sponsored by our transcript partner – Rev – Get $10 off your first order. John Jantsch: Would you consider yourself a protectionist? I certainly would not consider myself a traditional protectionist, but I wonder if there’s times when viewing my view of the world through other people’s lens has cost

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Hubspot Marketing

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Brands need a video marketing strategy — this idea isn’t new. What has changed is how important video has become on every platform and channel. It’s no longer just one piece of your overall marketing plan. It’s central to your outreach and campaign efforts … especially your social strategy. Video has absolutely dominated social. According to a recent HubSpot Research report , four of the top six channels on which global consumers watch video are social channels.

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Content Marketing Institute

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Editor’s note: You may have missed the original post when we published it a couple years ago. We know how important content promotion is today so we’ve updated it to reflect some new tools and some older favorites. I produce a lot of content. Not for the fun of it (although I genuinely enjoy most of it), but because I want it to increase awareness of my personal brand, drive traffic to my site, and generate leads.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Personalization is the marketing technique that makes your brand’s messaging standout. Consumers are already ignoring most of the 4,000 to 10,000 ads they see every day. And, with the vast majority of companies using content marketing, there’s a lot of competition out there vying for your audience’s content consumption time. If you want to cut […].

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Speaker: Jay Black, Senior Account Executive

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Sprout Social

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Forty million people a year use Pinterest to plan for their wedding. If you’re in the wedding industry, Pinterest needs to be one of the networks that you focus on. To start getting a sense of what Pinners explore in wedding topics, look through the wedding category. Wedding cakes alone has 896.3k followers. These categories and boards amount to a wealth of insight into what users want out of their research when they’re planning a wedding.

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Rock Content

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Our ScribbleLive solution, ion interactive, has spent years stressing the importance of launching landing pages that include additional engagement points for users. Landing pages have long been used to move prospects from interested shoppers to potential buyers by providing them with the right information rather than making them search for it. Unfortunately, on a traditional landing page, your visitors only have one opportunity to engage with you—the form.

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Content Marketing Institute

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Just because you create content doesn’t mean anyone will see it. People have to know the content exists in order to consume it. The digital landscape is increasingly competitive. If you want your content to drive maximum value, finding opportunities to engage audiences is just as critical as the content itself. Here are five advanced methods that belong in every marketer’s content promotion strategy.

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Marketing Insider Group

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

No matter how you look at it, Agile marketing is a very powerful force. Its positive impact is felt from the most recently hired individual contributors who are just trying to be better at their jobs, all the way up to the C -suite executives who are just trying to get a handle on what […]. The post Agile Won’t Fix Broken Marketing appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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