Martech

APRIL 30, 2024

Marketing technology is the backbone of marketing operations, enabling organizations to efficiently and effectively manage campaigns, analyze data and engage customers. Martech optimization is a systematic and ongoing process of evaluating, adjusting and enhancing the components of a company’s marketing technology stack.

CRM 90

CRM New Technology Marketing Marketers 90

Hubspot Marketing

MARCH 19, 2024

Our 2024 State of Marketing & Trends Report went live earlier this year, and I recently dug into the data and compiled a list of key marketing recommendations for this upcoming year to answer common questions like: Which industry trends and tactics are marketers investing in? What challenges are they facing?

Thought Leadership 102

Thought Leadership Marketing Marketers Influencer Marketing 102

Rock Content

APRIL 30, 2024

Your inbound content marketing strategy is a bigger part of your brand’s audience-facing image than you may realize. Amazing inbound marketing campaigns also foster lasting, powerful brand-customer connections. Amazing inbound marketing campaigns also foster lasting, powerful brand-customer connections.

Content Marketing 81

Content Marketing Inbound Marketing Outbound Marketing Direct Mail 81

Scoop.it!

APRIL 11, 2024

Current trends indicate marketers rate webinars as an effective channel for brands to connect with a target audience. According to On24 , 66% of marketers say their sales teams prioritize leads generated by varied webinar strategies. In addition, 99% of marketers cite webinars as key to their plans.

Content Marketing 86

Content Marketing Branding Marketing Marketers 86

Hubspot Marketing

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Increased open rates, click-throughs, and sales: If you want these results, running an email marketing audit can help you get there. That’s why I've teamed up with six email marketing experts to help you create an audit of your own. Together, we cover: What is an email marketing audit?

Email Marketing 111

Email Marketing Health Marketing Marketers 111

Martech

MARCH 4, 2024

Marketing automation is a great tool. This saves time and greatly expands what your marketing team can accomplish with limited resources. Unfortunately, marketing automation can also go wrong somewhat spectacularly. Hi [First Name]’ This might be the classic example of marketing automation gone wrong.

Marketing 118

Marketing Marketers Email Marketing SEO 118

Hubspot Marketing

JANUARY 22, 2024

But have no fear – here, I've rounded up seven data-backed strategies for nailing Q1, as well as Q1 marketing tips from HubSpot experts. Interested in influencer marketing? Half of marketers plan to increase their influencer marketing investment in 2024. Let's dive in. Start with micro-influencers.

eCommerce 108

eCommerce Marketing Marketers Influencer Marketing 108

Martech

MARCH 28, 2024

Is your marketing team tired of hearing about AI? Marketing teams now find themselves surrounded by AI. There are now countless AI-powered tools available for marketers to help boost productivity, automate manual tasks, analyze data and more. To some extent, we all are. It’s part of the hype cycle of any new technology.

Copywriting 119

Copywriting User-Generated CRM Marketing 119

Martech

OCTOBER 16, 2023

We email marketers are always searching for easier ways to do our jobs. Marketing automation gives you a way to have regular emails that focus on predictable behavior so we can send out an email when a customer achieves a goal or reaches a trigger or intent point. It must be a substantial part of every email marketing program.

eCommerce 130

eCommerce Law Shipping Email Marketing 130

Hubspot Marketing

AUGUST 21, 2023

Do you take a good, hard look at your team's marketing strategy every year? Without an annual marketing plan, things can get messy — and it's nearly impossible to put a number on the budget you'll need to secure for the projects, hiring, and outsourcing you'll encounter over the course of a year if you don't have a plan.

Marketing Plan 98

Marketing Plan Marketing Marketers Social Media Marketing 98

Rock Content

APRIL 22, 2024

What’s the biggest difference between marketing that makes money and marketing that’s just a huge waste of time? “It all comes down to knowing a few simple, but incredibly important marketing analytics and metrics,” says Adam Erhart. What is Digital Marketing? Other experts back up this assertion.

Digital Marketing 96

Digital Marketing Analytics Key Performance Indicator Social Media Marketing 96

Martech

JANUARY 19, 2024

Email marketing is ubiquitous in both B2B and B2C marketing today. But email marketing is not without its challenges. The proliferation of marketing emails presents three problems in particular for today’s marketers: It’s getting worse. As a marketing team, you need tools to help. Product recommendations.

User-Generated 121

User-Generated Email Marketing B2C Marketing 121

Martech

APRIL 16, 2024

If you’re like most marketers, you’ve been hearing the term “real-time” a lot lately. And you’ve probably been wondering, what is real-time marketing? It can sound like marketers need to live in the world of the Oscar contender Everything Everywhere All at Once. What do marketers mean when they say “real-time”?

Customer Journey 93

Customer Journey Marketing Marketers Customer 93

Hootsuite

JANUARY 18, 2024

It’s time to take your first steps into social media marketing. But whether you’re a budding entrepreneur or a seasoned pro stepping into the digital landscape for the first time, we know that starting a social media marketing strategy from scratch can feel intimidating. Your mind is ready. Your body is ready. More than 4.95

Social Media Marketing 122

Social Media Marketing Marketing Marketers Education 122

Martech

DECEMBER 26, 2023

But the sudden, rapid adoption of the latest wave of AI tools that use massive large language models (LLMs) to generate text and artwork for marketers presents a new class of challenges. It’s not hard to come up with examples where marketing blunders produced representational harms that drew immediate backlash.

Customer loyalty 104

Customer loyalty Marketing Marketers Education 104

Sprout Social

OCTOBER 19, 2023

As the digital market space rapidly evolves, customers are seeking authenticity and human connection from brands like never before. To meet this rising demand, your marketing team needs to be agile, think out of the box and keep up with deadlines—all while operating within limited budgets and constrained team bandwidths.

User-Generated 126

User-Generated Marketing Marketers Advertising 126

Rock Content

JANUARY 8, 2024

Marketing is something that every business has to do if it wants to thrive in a competitive market. Despite the need for marketing , did you know that approximately 50% of small businesses don’t have a marketing plan ? Your plan will go over detailed strategies and organize your processes.

Marketing Plan 74

Marketing Plan Key Performance Indicator Marketing Marketers 74

Litmus

JULY 18, 2023

And it’s no secret that email marketing offers a direct relationship with customers that want to hear from you and want help with gift inspiration. With inboxes being so crowded during this season, it might be beneficial to not concentrate your email marketing efforts around the holidays. appeared first on Litmus.

Shoppers 122

Shoppers Email Marketing Marketing Marketers 122

Sprout Social

MARCH 12, 2024

A proof point that illustrates what many social marketers already know: Presidential elections make social media a hard place to navigate, even if your brand isn’t inherently political. For example, Gen Z voters are particularly interested in mental health , while Gen X is more concerned about employment opportunities.

Social Media Marketing 111

Social Media Marketing Gen Z Health Marketing 111

Hubspot Marketing

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Traditionally, the marketing field emphasized creative thinking over technical skills. But to build a successful career as a marketer today, you need more than a knack for pitching ideas and coming up with clever copy. Here are several types you may come across in the marketing world. Budget planning. Project planning.

Copywriting 143

Copywriting Key Performance Indicator Transform Marketing 143

Search Engine Land

APRIL 16, 2024

en wondering, what is real-time marketing? It can sound like marketers need to live in the world of the Oscar contender Everything Everywhere All at Once. Real-time marketing is not so much having all the answers all the time, but giving customers what they need, when they need it. Are we delivering content in seconds?

Customer Journey 78

Customer Journey Marketing Marketers Customer 78

Hubspot Marketing

OCTOBER 23, 2023

As a marketing copywriter, I can tell you writing is critical to any successful marketing campaign, from emails to social media posts to blogs. I tested several AI copywriting platforms to find which tools write the best marketing copy. I decided on the first headline, “Ten Winning Strategies for Influencer Marketing.”

Copywriting 121

Copywriting User-Generated Influencer Marketing Marketing 121

Search Engine Land

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Gamification Gamification is an underutilized marketing tool that goes through ups and downs in popularity. The holiday season is an ideal time to experiment with gamification to learn about your audience for your future marketing. For example, a clothing brand could create a quiz like “What Does Your Wardrobe Say About You?”

eCommerce 138

eCommerce PR Marketing Marketers 138

Sprout Social

DECEMBER 6, 2023

There lies the magic of B2B influencer marketing. Influencer marketing has long been a staple for business-to-consumer (B2C) brands looking to cultivate more authentic connections with their audience. In this guide, we’re diving into the essentials of B2B influencer marketing. What is B2B influencer marketing?

Influencer Marketing 116

Influencer Marketing Branding B2C Marketing 116

SmartBrief - Marketing

APRIL 21, 2024

Given the current economic conditions and the onslaught of new technology enabling new go-to-market strategies and driving the need for new skills, the marketing resource paradox is omnipresent. Marketing leaders face slashed budgets and headcount reductions while the pressure for accelerating revenue increases.

Transform 85

Transform CMO Marketing Marketers 85

SmartBrief - Marketing

MARCH 17, 2024

Last year was a boon year for influencer marketing and the industry shows no signs of a slowdown. Marketers are expected to spend more than $7 billion in 2024 on influencer marketing, proving its value in helping companies reach new audiences, sway behaviors and generate revenue.

Influencer Marketing 107

Influencer Marketing Health Transform Marketing 107

Martech

MARCH 1, 2024

Customer retention is becoming more of a priority for B2B marketers lately. As buying shifts online and marketing takes on some traditional sales roles, retaining existing customers is essential for driving growth and profits. But, at last, B2B marketers are beginning to grasp the importance of retention marketing for profit growth.

Gen Z 113

Gen Z Pharmaceutical Customer Acquisition Marketing 113

Martech

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

It was planning time. Prompt: What are the challenges for marketing ops in 2024? She started by looking at what her favorite generative AI tool said about the challenges she and other marketing managers faced. She entered the query: “What are the challenges for marketing operations in 2024? Digital Marketing Knowledge.

Marketing 98

Marketing Marketers Telemarketing Customer Journey 98

Businesses Grow

OCTOBER 25, 2023

I’ve been noticing a lot of messy marketing in the world and it’s driving me crazy. For example, there is a commercial playing during American sports events that is just SO ANNOYING. When does it actually makes sense to make your marketing messy? Messy marketing for the win! The singer is off-key.

Direct Mail 122

Direct Mail Marketing Marketers Advertising 122

Hubspot Marketing

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The ultimate goal of social media marketing is to generate revenue, and a crucial step to generating revenue via social media is creating engagement. They're also a dime a dozen, so marketers must refine their approach to building and leveraging them correctly. Instagram Influencer marketers see the highest ROI through Instagram.

Branding 142

Branding Social Media Marketing User-Generated Entertainment 142

Sprout Social

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Marketers are finding it increasingly difficult to set the right budget, optimize it and keep the leads flowing. Managing social media and other marketing channels in this economy can be challenging. You’ll need a plan to address top budget concerns to provide clarity and control over every dollar spent.

Social Media Marketing 129

Social Media Marketing Marketing Marketers Influencer Marketing 129

Exposure Ninja

AUGUST 9, 2023

A go-to-market strategy (GTM strategy) is a detailed plan that outlines how a company or organisation will introduce and promote its products or services to the target market and customers. It’s a strategic approach that covers all aspects of bringing a product or service from development to market launch and beyond.

Marketing Strategy 98

Marketing Strategy Marketing Marketers Communications 98

Search Engine Land

MARCH 5, 2024

Google announced several upcoming changes aimed at ensuring compliance with the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), which is set to take effect this week. Google plans to introduce more choice screens based on user research, testing, and industry feedback. Get the daily newsletter search marketers rely on.

Digital Marketing 106

Digital Marketing Advertising Advertisers Marketing 106

AWeber

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Imagine successfully marketing your coaching services across several platforms with so many leads flowing your way that your waiting list is getting out of hand. There’s a lot to do when starting a coaching business , and you don’t want to spend the majority of your time on marketing. How do coaches find clients?

eBook 97

eBook Marketing Plan Influencer Marketing Marketing 97

Martech

JANUARY 12, 2024

As we slide into 2024, B2B marketing leaders face new challenges: deals are harder to close, budgets are shrinking, and expectations are rising. We must rethink what it means to be effective in marketing. It’s about the mechanics of marketing and the fine-tuning of various activities and processes.

Key Performance Indicator 123

Key Performance Indicator Transform Marketing Mix Marketing 123

Martech

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Today, B2B marketing teams must tackle the challenge of handling intricate workflows, enhancing communication and fostering efficient collaboration. Traditional project management tools might not fully meet the requirements of B2B marketing teams. That’s where marketing work management solutions step in.

Management 115

Management Communications Marketing Marketers 115

Hubspot Marketing

MAY 8, 2023

In the last six months, economic trend surveys we've conducted revealed that 37% of marketers are reporting budget cuts – likely due to our changing economy. As a marketer, knowing where your leadership team might need to cut can help you prepare to pivot to strategies with less resourcing. The writing above isn’t perfect.

Gen Z 121

Gen Z Millennials Marketing Marketers 121