Sat.Oct 06, 2018 - Fri.Oct 12, 2018

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The Ultimate Guide to Augmented Reality

Hubspot Marketing

Picture this: It's rainy Saturday afternoon and you’re spending your day indoors at a local art museum. You meander from room to room staring at all the art, but not really absorbing any information. The information next to the art is too small, too crowded, or frankly, too boring. You quickly lose interest and make your way to the cafe. If you’re anything like me, the situation I just described sounds pretty familiar.

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What Are the Characteristics of High ROI Marketing Teams?

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Too often, B2B marketers get wrapped up in the world of click and lead volume optimization. But the reality is, the ultimate goal of all marketing should be efficiently generating revenue growth, which is measured by ROI. In short: effective marketing organizations have high ROI. So, what defines a high ROI marketing team? Do they have different priorities?

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How to use social media personas to boost brand engagement

Sprout Social

Do you know what your ideal customer on social media looks like – literally? In day and age where people crave personalization from businesses online , it pays to get as specific as possible when it comes to defining your target audience. But when you’re targeting hundreds or thousands of followers, how can you possibly guarantee that your message is on point?

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7 Ways to Reboot Your Brand’s Content Marketing Strategy

Marketing Insider Group

Content is a great way for a brand to demonstrate their relevance, personality, and value. Your content marketing strategy will often need some tweaking, or all out revamping, to remain effective. Here are seven ways to reboot your brand’s content marketing strategy. Your Value Proposition Your value proposition is basically a summary of your brand’s […].

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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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A Professional Yet Kind Rejection Letter Template

Hubspot Marketing

It's never easy telling a candidate they didn't get the job after hours of preparation and interviews. Oftentimes, the awkwardness leads to generic emails, like "We have chosen not to move forward with your application at this time.". You might feel like there's simply no good way to tell someone they've been rejected. Fortunately, that's not true. By wording your rejection letter kindly, you'll make it easier for the candidate to hear the news.

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The 4 Most Important Aspects of WordPress Hosting

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

With nearly 31% of market share , WordPress is a favorite website for most businesses, large and small. Its ease of use and low cost are major factors that have endeared many to use it. In fact, it’s free at entry level. Typically, getting a cheap WordPress hosting company for your site is not difficult, but getting a reliable WordPress hosting company for your website is another matter.

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What Consumers Want More of at Marketing Events

Marketing Insider Group

Traditional marketing is not as effective today as it used to be. People – understandably – prefer messaging and content that directly speaks to their needs and goals over being bombarded with brand advertising. 71 percent of internet users feel that ads are more intrusive than they were just a few years ago. Content marketing, on the […]. The post What Consumers Want More of at Marketing Events appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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How to Use Facebook: A Beginner’s Guide

Hubspot Marketing

Facebook has changed quite a bit since I first signed up for an account in 2008. Back then, Facebook was still called “The Facebook”, and my bio literally said, “Check out my MySpace, it’s waaaay better than my Facebook.”. Needless to say, Facebook has evolved at breakneck speed since my middle school years, and it’ll keep adapting at a swift pace for as long as it exists.

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About Face: Why You Should Stop Showing Faces in Your Ads

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

It can be hard to find an advertisement that doesn’t prominently feature an individual’s face. A quick image search of Moat displays an ad inventory for Wells Fargo that illustrates what I’m talking about: Almost all of the results feature happy people of various ages and races to support a request to “click to learn more.” Digital marketers have a tendency to use people in ads.

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Why You Need Vertical Visuals If Your Audience is Mobile

Content Marketing Institute

A decade ago, nobody mentioned vertical content. Then again, back then smartphones were something new. Today, smartphones are ubiquitous and vertical content is a must-have. The two are inseparable. One cannot mention vertical content without using the term “mobile” in the same sentence. Why vertical. Before getting too far into the topic, vertical content is content that can be easily read on a rectangular, elongated device such as a smartphone or tablet.

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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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5 Steps to Creating a Content Marketing Campaign

Marketing Insider Group

When you begin to create a content marketing campaign, it’s a little like putting together a puzzle piece by piece. You need to start with a solid framework, much like the edge pieces of the puzzle. What gets filled in the middle is all the dynamic data and creative outputs. But you have to start […]. The post 5 Steps to Creating a Content Marketing Campaign appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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5 fitness brands winning social media

Sprout Social

Workout gurus and yoga influencers are found in all corners of Instagram. While individuals build up followings and influence their audience, what are brands doing to stay relevant? It takes a mix of constant posting endurance, flexible strategy and tenacity to reach new heights in the fitness world. Let’s take a look at how five fitness brands are winning at social media.

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Is Attribution the Key to Professional Success?

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Why is it that the average tenure of a CMO is so much less than other C-suite executives? According to the CMO Impact Study , over 40% of CMOs have been in their roles for less than two years and 70% less than four years. There is much speculation as to why marketers have a shorter lifespan than their executive colleagues, but one stat from the Marketing Performance Management Survey, 2017 particularly caught my attention and could be related: only 23% of marketers earn top ratings from their C-

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3 Content Marketing Strategy Reminders That Lurk in a Surprising Place

Content Marketing Institute

Did you catch Joe Pulizzi’s talk at Content Marketing World 2018 ? In it, he revealed the secrets of life and marketing (sorry if you missed it). I won’t give everything away here, but I will let you in on one of the (no longer secret) secrets: Cut everything from your day that doesn’t get you to your goal. “To be successful, we need to remove what’s in our way of doing the great things,” Joe says.

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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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Brand Storytelling, Defined

Marketing Insider Group

Brand storytelling is gaining momentum in the marketing world, and with good reason. Stories are scientifically proven to get a person’s attention. In fact, stories stimulate brain activity. When we read or hear plot points our neurons start firing—and not just in the part of the brain that controls the language center. But there’s a […]. The post Brand Storytelling, Defined appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Social media and the rise of fantasy sports

Sprout Social

You don’t have to be a sports fanatic to know how much sports fans love to share updates about their teams on social media. Fantasy sports have played a huge role in shaping fans’ communities and conversations on social platforms. What are fantasy sports? Fantasy sports are a game where participants build imaginary teams. The teams are made up of real-life players.

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3 Ways to Build a ‘Riches in Niches’ Agency Business Model

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

Every company has a niche—even those that serve other companies. When I was just starting out, I worried too much about whether my focus limited my appeal to prospects. What if they found another agency that offered more services? Eventually, I realized that without a strong position in my own niche, I would never be able to differentiate my agency from the thousands of others clamoring for attention.

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How Does Your Marketing Budget Grow? – Key Trends From The CMO Survey

The CMO Survey

Nikita Avdiushko, Duke University – Fuqua School of Business MBA Student, contributed to this post. Digital Dominates Marketing Spending Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) are leading the charge as companies rush to become digital-first. These leaders are transforming the customer experience (CX), working collaboratively with sales, product management, IT, and customer service to drive this change.

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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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Create Meta-Descriptions That Land High-Quality Prospects

Marketing Insider Group

You’ve crafted the perfect content for your reader. You know when they read it, they’ll love it and seek to do business with your company. But that’s the thing—you need to get them to actually read it. While social is a great way to promote content to followers, your best shot at bringing in brand […]. The post Create Meta-Descriptions That Land High-Quality Prospects appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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How L’Oréal scales its strategic vision of influencer marketing around the world I Traackr

Traackr

Discover how L'Oréal balances global consistency and local relevance to maximize its impact with influencers and their communities.

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Microsoft Outlook 2019: Here’s What’s New

Litmus

We’re thrilled to announce that Microsoft’s latest desktop version of its popular email client—Outlook 2019—is now available for testing in Litmus Email Previews. Microsoft Outlook is comprised of several versions of the email client. Collectively, those clients rank #4 in email client market share , with 9% of all email subscribers opening their emails in some version of Outlook.

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How to Use LinkedIn to Generate Sales Conversations

Duct Tape Marketing

How to Use LinkedIn to Generate Sales Conversations written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. The video above is a replay of a recent live webinar I hosted with guest Viveka von Rosen. Combined with the text below you should have a pretty good feel for how to use LinkedIn to generate sales conversations. LinkedIn is the oldest social network.

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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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Classic Advertising and Consulting Models Are Shifting — To Clients’ Benefit

Marketing Insider Group

With the possible exception of consumer apps, no market has exploded in the new millennium quite like marketing technology. When chiefmartec.com started reporting on the space in 2011, it counted around 150 solutions. Today, it reports around 7,000. Put another way, 2018’s martech landscape contains more software products than those of 2011 through 2016 combined. […].

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Google Ads Vs Google Marketing Platform: which is best for your display ads?

Bannerflow

Google is 20 years old this Autumn and it dominates digital advertising. In fact, its advertising business accounts for most of parent company Alphabet’s revenue, which was a cool $26.6 billion in the first quarter of 2018 ! For display advertisers, Google’s tools are what many brands rely on when serving ads and gaining insight into performance. Fundamentally, Google’s online tools are a key component of how many marketing teams work.

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How to Create a Local Marketing Results Dashboard in Google Data Studio - Whiteboard Friday

Moz

Posted by DiTomaso Showing clients that you're making them money is one of the most important things you can communicate to them, but it's tough to know how to present your results in a way they can easily understand. That's where Google Data Studio comes in. In this week's edition of Whiteboard Friday, our friend Dana DiTomaso shares how to create a client-friendly local marketing results dashboard in Google Data Studio from start to finish.

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Increase Your Focus and Combat Distractions

Duct Tape Marketing

Increase Your Focus and Combat Distractions written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Chris Bailey. Podcast Transcript. This week on the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I chat with author and productivity expert Chris Bailey. After graduating from business school, Bailey decided to forego the traditional path and spend a full year learning everything he could about a topic that fascinated him: productivity.

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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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Agile Marketing, Interrupted (VIDEO)

Marketing Insider Group

Like it or not, marketing teams are going to experience interruptions. They might be the good kind, like an emerging news event that we want to join the conversation about. Or they might be the bad kind, like a PR disaster that we have to try and handle. Then again, they might be the leadership […]. The post Agile Marketing, Interrupted (VIDEO) appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Everything Email Marketers Need to Know about Apple’s New iPhones and iOS 12

Litmus

With 28% of all emails read on Apple’s iPhones , changes to Apple’s phones, the mobile operating system, and its email rendering can make a big difference to the email marketing world. So it’s no surprise that email geeks have monitored the release of Apple’s new phones. We did too, and we’re breaking down everything you must know about the new iPhones and iOS 12.

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Why We're Doubling Down on the Future of SEO - Moz + STAT

Moz

Posted by Dr-Pete Search is changing. As a 200-person search marketing software company, this isn't just a pithy intro – it's a daily threat to our survival. Being an organic search marketer can be frustrating when even a search like "What is SEO?" returns something like this.or this.or even this. So, why don't we just give up on search marketing altogether?

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Weekend Favs October 6

Duct Tape Marketing

Weekend Favs October 6 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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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.