2021

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How to Build a Daily Writing Habit

Ann Handley

A version of this story appeared in Total Annarchy, my fortnightly newsletter that helps you be a better writer, storyteller, marketer. Get it in your inbox ; you’ll love it. * * *. I’m typing this with one hand—let’s call it Lefty, because it’s my left hand.

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Mobile App Security Threats and Ways to Mitigate Them

Learn Hub | G2

The future is mobile. Guest Post Tech

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Why Testing the Rendering of Every Email You Send Increases Your ROI

Litmus

Email design is a moving target. Whether marketers like it or not, it’s impossible to create a single email design because the rendering of any individual email changes depending on the email client and screen size used to view it, on top of many other factors.

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10 Best Practices to Write the Perfect Email Subject Line

Content Marketing Institute

Your email’s first impression may be it’s last impression if you don’t have a great subject line. Here’s how to motivate recipients to open your emails. Continue reading → The post 10 Best Practices to Write the Perfect Email Subject Line appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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Best Practices to Boost Marketing Efficiency while Decreasing Cost Per Sale

Speaker: Kristin Hess - Senior Product Marketing Manager, Drift; Will Lyon - Head of Vertical Marketing, 6sense

In this webinar, you will learn how a digital buying experience can maintain the feel of an in-person buying experience, how to leverage first-party data for better brand experiences, and how to achieve seamless marketing-to-sales handoffs at scale.

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Excellent Customer Service Is Also Excellent Marketing

David Meerman Scott

When you can buy most anything you want online, the retailers who serve us seem interchangeable. But they don’t have to be. Recently I placed my first order with Sweetwater , a music instrument and pro audio retailer, and was amazed by how well they treated me.

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2021: The Year Martech Shrank — Just Kidding (A Year in Review)

Chief Martec

Congratulations on making it to the end of 2021. It’s been a long year for everyone as we navigated the ongoing pandemic saga. From the perspective of advancing digital business, these past 21 months have seen leaps and bounds forward.

B2C 134

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What Are Customer Touchpoints and Why You Should Care

SMEI

When marketers talk about customer touchpoints, they refer to the times when your brand, product, or service interacts with the customer throughout their journey with you.

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Digital Marketing Spending Soars as Marketers’ Roles Reach Higher Echelons

The CMO Survey

Digital marketing spending has grown to comprise 58% of marketing budgets, reflecting 15.8% growth over the last year, and is projected to grow by 14.7% in the next year. In the wake of this spending, the 27th Edition of The CMO Survey finds that digital marketing is the No.

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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.

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A Marketer’s Guide to the Metaverse

Neil Patel

Technology is ever-changing and, because of that, so is marketing. The evolution of the metaverse is just one recent development in the world of technology, but one that will have a huge impact on the human experience as we know it.

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Which ESG Topics Get the Most Attention?

People are focusing on how companies are responding to the headline issues of the day, says a report from 3BL Media on evolving interests in ESG subjects, which also found a mismatch between the stories brands publish and topics audiences want.

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How to Turn Editing Into the Best Part of Writing

Ann Handley

Image credit: presentandcorrect. A version of this story appeared in Total Annarchy, my fortnightly newsletter that helps you be a better writer, storyteller, marketer. Get it in your inbox ; you’ll love it. * * *. Long before I wrote books and your favorite newsletter ??,

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What Is a Marketing Deck? Tips, Examples, and Templates

Learn Hub | G2

One of the frustrating things about marketing a brand or business is capturing your target audience’s attention. Guest Post

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Apple’s Mail Privacy Protection: What This Means for Email Marketers and How to Prepare Now

Litmus

Apple just kicked off their annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC 2021) yesterday, and the email community has been abuzz ever since. Three words: Mail Privacy Protection. Apple announced Mail Privacy Protection for their Mail app on iOS 15, iPadOS 15, and macOS Monterey devices.

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26 Eye-Opening Ideas for Putting an End to Digital Content Fatigue

Content Marketing Institute

After a year with few IRL options, many find their eyes glazing over when it comes to digital content. Can your content reignite the spark of interest? Content Marketing World speakers say it can – and share ideas for how to make it happen.

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Marketing Through Storytelling: The Secret to Building a Unique Brand Identity

Speaker: Amanda Wener, Award-Winning Content Strategist and Brand Storyteller

In this exclusive webinar with award-winning content strategist Amanda Wener, you’ll learn the benefits of a strong editorial content strategy in building a brand identity, why functioning like a newsroom works, and how a structured approach to content creation and marketing can bring your brand to life.

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Back to the Basics: The Importance of Buyer Personas

David Meerman Scott

The way most marketers operate is by making stuff up. They sit in nice comfortable offices and imagine what interests buyers and then create “copy” and “campaigns” typically with the help of equally clueless agencies. But a focus on buyer personas helps eliminate this behavior.

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Advanced Core Web Vitals: A Technical SEO Guide via @sejournal, @Jammer_Volts

Search Engine Journal

Technical SEO professionals need to diagnose and provide solutions for a better, more user-centric experience. Here's what you need to know about improving CWV. The post Advanced Core Web Vitals: A Technical SEO Guide appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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How to Avoid a Business Culture Clash With Your Marketing Agency

Industrial Marketer

How bad can a business culture clash be between a client and their marketing agency? Well, it can actually make or break the relationship — one that you, as someone who needs marketing agency support, definitely want to be successful.

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What Are Customer Touchpoints and Why You Should Care

SMEI

When marketers talk about customer touchpoints, they refer to the times when your brand, product, or service interacts with the customer throughout their journey with you.

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Maximizing Marketing Efforts: Benefits of Personalizing Online Experience

Speaker: Kate Marx, VP of State Street Global Advisors; Tara Quehl, Marketing Director at Demandbase; Lee Zucker, Global Head of GTM & Revenue Strategy at Drift

In this webinar, financial services marketing professionals will teach you how to refocus your marketing efforts on a digital-first client experience by humanizing visits to your website, boosting the effectiveness of your client-facing teams.

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Marketing Proves Its Mettle During Pandemic; Job Growth Follows Suit

The CMO Survey

The dust is beginning to settle for marketers who helped steer their companies through marketplace volatility caused by the ongoing pandemic. While the profession took its knocks with job losses in 2020, the forecast is looking brighter moving into 2021.

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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.

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The Ultimate Guide to Bing SEO

Neil Patel

When we talk about SEO, Google comes to mind for most search engine marketers. It makes sense. If you can please the search giant, other search engines will follow along and send traffic to your website. Right?

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Specific Writing Is More Relatable Writing: Standout Sentences #1

Ann Handley

Normally I celebrate standout marketing writing. But this week I’m sharing a line from a novel I’m reading. It’s simple. It’s compact. And it’s perfect: “His skin was not just clammy but the color and consistency of actual clams.”

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7 Trends in ESG: What PR Pros Need to Know in 2023

What does the evolution of ESG programs mean for communicators? As it turns out - a lot. New challenges are coming into focus, driven by the increasing attention to corporate sustainability and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) programs, and the evolving state of ESG reporting regulations. This new ebook from 3BL Media explores seven trends in detail and unpacks what they mean for communicators. Access your copy for free today.

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Your Local Marketing Guide: Reach Customers in Your Area

Learn Hub | G2

Marketing locally is very different from reaching a global audience. Guest Post Marketing

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The Little-Known Preview Text Hack You May Want to Use in Every Email

Litmus

Your email’s preview text in the inbox shows at least as many characters as your subject line—and in some cases, much more. That’s valuable real estate you can use to convince subscribers that opening your emails is worthwhile.

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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.

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New Documentary Short re:connection Explores Video in a Virtual World

David Meerman Scott

I’m super excited about the release of the short documentary film re:connection. I’m featured in the 15-minute film along with neuroscientists, marketers, content creators (including an 80-year-old TikTok star), and futurists.

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The ABM Benchmark Survey

ABM gets better with age — but unfortunately, marketers don't have the luxury of pouring it into an oak barrel for a couple decades to let it mature. It’s clear there’s a maturity gap in ABM strategies, so how can marketers start closing it?

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Google Loses Top Domain Spot To TikTok via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Search Engine Journal

Google is no longer the world's most popular domain after being dethroned by TikTok, according to rankings from web security company Cloudflare. The post Google Loses Top Domain Spot To TikTok appeared first on Search Engine Journal. News TikTok

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10 Simple Steps to Boost Digital Marketing for Manufacturers

Industrial Marketer

Looking at the present state of digital marketing for manufacturers, we know many manufacturers are just beginning to realize that digital marketing is at a tipping point where it is no longer optional and must become a bigger part of any marketing plan for a manufacturing company.

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Freelancers can now offer their services on LinkedIn’s new gig marketplace

Search Engine Land

The LinkedIn Service Marketplace competes with the likes of Fiverr and Upwork. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

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Marketers Pivot to Meet Pandemic Year’s Emerging Digital, Social, and Political Trends

The CMO Survey

Almost a year into the Covid-19 pandemic and amidst enormous death and suffering, we have witnessed a year full of transformation and challenge for the field of marketing.

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A 12-Month New-Member Onboarding Schedule

Onboarding is more than simply sending out a welcome packet and adding the new member to your association’s email list — it’s a strategic process. Get the step- by-step onboarding schedule now.