Hubspot Marketing

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

I cringe whenever I look at how many unopened emails live in my work inbox. Those companies did below the line (BTL) marketing right. Email marketing, direct mail, events — below the line marketing includes these and similar targeted tactics to convince and convert buyers. Answering “What is BTL marketing?”

Direct Mail

Martech

OCTOBER 16, 2024

As marketers pour more budget into digital channels, a surprising disconnect remains. While the majority of retail sales, for example, still happen in physical stores, most marketing efforts focus solely on tracking online metrics. All of this points to marketers needing a better method of campaign measurement.

Retail

Martech

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Your calendar is not just a pretty collection of dates and ideas; it’s the blueprint for a successful email marketing program. Below are six tried-and-tested pointers to unlock the full potential of your email marketing calendar. In addition to the year’s key marketing dates, highlight other promos for your business.

Email Marketing

Hubspot Marketing

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

When I graduated with a marketing degree over a decade ago, I hit the scene thinking that marketing would always be its own thing. Something like “holistic marketing” seemed unnecessary to me. Marketers had their swim lane; I’d stick to mine. That’s one of many benefits holistic marketing offers.

CMO

Martech

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Memo To : Marketing directors, VPs, SVPs and CMOs Re : Recommendations to optimize your automated marketing campaigns Your investment in technology to support marketing automation was smart. They need to: Understand what the metrics tell them about your subscribers’ interaction with your marketing efforts.

Marketers

Trade Press Services Newsletter

MAY 1, 2025

Start Early Planning for a website redesign and relaunch should start six months to a year before the target launch date. Define Goals and Metrics Before relaunching, clearly define what success looks like now. A deep dive into all your content is essential, says Amanda Donahue, marketing manager at ACS.

User-Generated

Litmus

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

What is lifecycle marketing? By aligning your marketing efforts to each stage, you can build stronger relationships, keep customers coming back, and make the most of every interaction.In Lifecycle marketing is a strategy that involves engaging customers with the right message at the right time as they interact with your brand.

Management

Martech

DECEMBER 17, 2024

That means big changes to email marketing strategies. I think there are two big changes coming for folks using Apple Mail, said Brian McKenna, vice president of CRM at digital marketing agency DMI Partners. Dont forget, iOS 18 affects any one using Apple Mail on their iPhone, iPad or Mac, regardless of email domain.

Email Marketing

Backlinko

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Want to create a content marketing strategy that actually works? Through content marketing, Backlinko attracts over 772,000 monthly sessions. Identify Your Goals Before you do anything, set specific, time-bound goals for your content marketing strategy. And an email marketing campaign offering exclusive deals.

Marketing Strategy

Hubspot Marketing

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Content monitoring means benchmarking and tracking content performance over time to make sure it meets key performance indicators and objectives. Equally, you might track your LinkedIn content's success or how well your email campaigns perform. You can then use the performance data to improve your content marketing strategy.

eCommerce

Vertical Response

DECEMBER 21, 2024

Conversion in email marketing means turning email recipients into paying customers. This article outlines ten practical tips to boost your email marketing conversion and help you achieve better results. Understand Your Target Audience High-quality customer data is the bedrock of effective email marketing campaigns.

Email Marketing

SmartBrief - Marketing

JANUARY 13, 2025

Revenue, customer acquisition costs, market share. If youre an executive, these are the metrics youre likely monitoring to understand the health of your business. But traditional metrics dont always illuminate how to get there whether youre looking to grow market share, grow your physical footprint, grow your donor base, etc.

Health

Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 13, 2024

Content marketing is vital for all businesses because it helps their message reach its intended audience. No matter the size of your agency, effective content marketing can transform how you connect with potential travelers, turning casual browsers into loyal adventurers.

Content Marketing

Martech

AUGUST 14, 2024

Do you have separate tools for email marketing, social media scheduling, and content planning? Don’t sacrifice the specialized features essential to your marketing success in the name of efficiency. Don’t sacrifice the specialized features essential to your marketing success in the name of efficiency.

Customer Acquisition

Sprout Social

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

It’s not hard to see why— Influencer marketing can increase your brand’s reach, engagement and overall credibility. But that’s only if marketers understand how to hire an influencer in the first place. Understand the process of hiring influencers Marketers rarely stumble on the perfect influencer for their brand by chance.

Gen Z

Martech

JULY 16, 2024

One main reason for this is the difficulty CMOs have in proving the financial value of marketing expenses. Despite advancements in addressability and attribution, marketers still struggle to find ROI measures that impress the CFO and the CEO. Defining clear outcomes Marketing must clearly define desired outcomes at each funnel stage.

Finance

Martech

APRIL 17, 2025

In a market saturated with feature-focused messaging, it’s more important than ever to quantify and communicate value especially amid economic uncertainty and waning consumer confidence. B2B marketing leaders play a pivotal role in this shift. The shift to value-based marketing The B2B landscape is evolving. Processing.

Customer

Martech

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Keeping track of it all can be overwhelming if you’re not prepared. Organization develops professionalism and that professional glow rubs off on your email program. It persuades others that email should be respected. Email has always been perceived as a lightweight operation that anybody can do. What went well?

Email Marketing

Sprout Social

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Influencers and creators play a pivotal role in global social media marketing. Many leading brands rely on influencer marketing to raise awareness about their products, build brand recognition and increase their overall sales. Define your influencer marketing strategy Define your overall influencer strategy.

Influencer Marketing

Hootsuite

OCTOBER 18, 2024

A social media marketing strategy is a summary of everything you plan to do and hope to achieve on social media. In this post, we’ll walk you through a nine-step plan to create a winning strategy for social media marketing. We’ve even got expert insights from Amanda Wood, Hootsuite’s Senior Manager of Social Marketing.

Social Media Marketing

Vertical Response

JULY 29, 2024

Need a clear way to plan for a marketing campaign? Key Takeaways Setting clear, measurable goals is essential for guiding a marketing campaign, allowing for alignment with business objectives and progress tracking. Set Clear Campaign Goals Clear campaign goals are the cornerstone of any successful marketing effort.

Key Performance Indicator

Hubspot Marketing

JANUARY 16, 2025

These pieces of content were tracked and analyzed to gauge their success, but all using unique measuring sticks. With your own tailored content scorecard, you can create a data-driven process for measuring your individual content marketing success. Content scoring is the process of measuring the success of your content marketing.

Analytics

Hubspot Marketing

JUNE 30, 2025

Looking to grow your marketing team? It all starts with marketing job descriptions written to attract your best potential. I’ve encountered countless job descriptions during my time as a marketer and have learned a thing or two along the way. Wording, structure, even emojis — everything counts. Stay open to non-linear paths.

Management

Martech

JUNE 19, 2025

Marketers, and B2B marketers in particular, often face criticism for focusing on vanity metrics. Vanity metrics are numbers that are easily measurable and look good on paper but don’t directly correlate to business outcomes or provide actionable insights. Vanity metric No. Vanity metric No.

CRM

Martech

AUGUST 12, 2024

See more about how marketers are using MarTechBot here. I am the first generative AI chatbot for marketing technology professionals. Prompt: How might a marketer for a large B2C company incorporate a CDP into their martech stack to improve the customer experience, increase customer engagement, and increase conversion rates?

Customer

Martech

JULY 30, 2024

It makes sense that you’re already using project management metrics to ensure projects are on track, on time and on budget. However, if you’re using your project management data for only that, you’re probably not getting all the value you can from the metrics you’re capturing. Speed : Cycle time and on-time delivery.

Management

Hubspot Marketing

JULY 10, 2024

Rank tracking is one very important part of your SEO strategy — and our Ultimate Guide to SEO covers the rest, outlining everything you need to get your website and blog ranking. While each tool is different, I’ve generally found that it boils down to inputting your target keywords into the rank tracker tool so you can get tracking reports.

Price

Backlinko

DECEMBER 6, 2024

A marketing funnel is a way to think about your customer journey. It starts when they discover your brand and tracks through as they become a loyal customer. The better your marketing funnel, the more sales you can capture. The Marketing Funnel Explained How many stages a marketing funnel has and what you call them varies.

Customer Journey

Martech

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Ultimately, AI pilots lead to disconnected efforts and fail to meet the urgent demands for ROI that many marketing leaders face. Missed opportunities : Taking too long to move beyond experimentation can mean missed opportunities to capitalize on market shifts and opportunities. Prioritize use cases based on impact and feasibility.

Key Performance Indicator

Hubspot Marketing

JULY 22, 2024

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

Marketing Plan

Hubspot Marketing

JULY 12, 2024

Matthew Stibbe , CEO of Articulate Marketing , told me, "Community is not the cult of celebrity. You should have a clear goal and mission statement and understand what perspective and expertise you bring to this persona that another community isn’t or couldn’t.” It’s a reciprocal thing. Understand why you’re building a community.

Management

Martech

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Whether you’re looking for a solution to power your personalization efforts, consent management, attribution tracking or other use cases where a point solution is available, a CDP is likely capable of meeting your needs. Here are 12 ways your marketing team can use a CDP. A closely related concept is customer journey mapping.

Customer

Martech

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Marketing relies on seamless access to data, but customer information is often trapped in silos across teams and platforms. As a marketer, youre uniquely positioned to drive change by bridging gaps between teams and aligning data strategies with business goals. It is a major concern for both business and technical stakeholders.

Marketers

Martech

APRIL 3, 2025

Marketers often celebrate a “successful” campaign when click-through rates soar and cost-per-click drops. The marketing report looks impressive, but the sales report tells a different story. In reality, while sales must focus on closing deals, marketing must provide qualified leads. Where is the disconnect?

User-Generated

Martech

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Remember when your martech stack was manageable — maybe just one CRM platform paired with an email automation tool? What began as a focused investment in digital efficiency expanded into a maze of overlapping tools and monthly charges that are difficult to track and justify. This trend mirrors what happened in consumer markets.

Customer

Vertical Response

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

Email marketing lets you communicate directly with your audience to promote products and build brand loyalty. It offers one of the highest returns on investment in digital marketing and allows you to control your customer list, avoiding reliance on social media algorithms. The benefits of email marketing are manifold.

Email Marketing

Hubspot Marketing

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Heres a startling reality: while 88% of marketers believe AI and automation are essential for meeting customer expectations, theyre only using about 56% of the tools they buy. This disconnect raises important questions: Are marketers investing in the wrong tools, or are they simply not harnessing their full potential?

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