Unbounce

MAY 16, 2024

/ A/B Testing 10 A/B testing metrics to analyze results and measure success By Josh Gallant. Updated on May 16, 2024. 12 min read How do you measure success? Trying out new marketing tactics, ideas, and initiatives is always exciting, but unless you’re actively analyzing the results you generate… You won’t know what’s working and what’s not. A/B testing metrics are critical for determining the effectiveness of your experiments and hypotheses.

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Aspiration Marketing

MAY 16, 2024

Did you know that email marketing is one of the most effective marketing channels available today? But this impressive return on investment hinges on one crucial factor: a healthy subscriber list. Many businesses struggle with inactive subscribers on their email lists, hurting their overall email marketing efforts. The good news: you can fix this! This blog post will show you proven strategies to bring those inactive subscribers back into the fold and get your email marketing humming again.

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Search Engine Land

MAY 16, 2024

If you run a local business and find that your Google Business Profile has been suspended , it can have a devastating effect on your business. Your phone may stop ringing. Customers may stop coming to your location. The loss of revenue is real. Your first instinct may be to panic and just go through the motions of filling out the Appeals tool without thinking too much about the consequences.

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Social Media Examiner

MAY 16, 2024

Want to ensure that your videos are relevant to your target audience? Looking for tactics to retain viewers at various stages of the customer journey? In this article, we’ll explore how to optimize your videos to reach the right people. Why Videos Tend to Underperform In today's digital age, video has become an essential tool […] The post How to Optimize Your Videos to Reach More of the Right People appeared first on Social Media Examiner.

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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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Content Marketing Institute

MAY 16, 2024

You spend a lot of resources on the content published on your brand’s site. Why not get a credibility boost and a wider audience for it? Put on your PR hat (or get with the PR team) and get pitching with these tips.

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Hubspot Marketing

MAY 16, 2024

As ad costs have exploded in the last year, founders and CMOs are seeking alternatives to paid acquisition. HubSpot recognized the value of organic search early, enabling our growth alongside the expanding search landscape. While AI-powered search experiences are reshaping the search landscape, we're still firm believers in search. To vet whether organic search is an opportunity for you, you need to understand your Search TAM ( Total Addressable Market ).

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The LeadG2 Blog

MAY 16, 2024

Inbound marketing attracts people who are actively interested in your offerings or brand to your business. Using SEO and other inbound tactics, you can bring in audiences more likely to invest in your business, services, and products. To get the most from your inbound marketing strategy, you must measure the performance of your campaigns. Measurement will involve tracking the right key performance indicators (KPIs) and calculating your ROI, which will help you make the necessary adjustments to y

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Martech

MAY 16, 2024

Video ad spend is expected to rise 16% year-over-year in 2024. Brands are interested because of the deep penetration that CTV and digital video have with U.S. households. Streaming services and other publishers are stepping up to bring more ad-supported options to consumers, along with better ad experiences. Dig deeper: IAB NewFronts rings in the age of digital video dominance Here are three key reasons behind this growth in digital video and the numbers behind them.

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Search Engine Land

MAY 16, 2024

Netflix’s ad-supported tier is rapidly gaining traction, reaching 40 million monthly users globally, the streamer announced at its 2024 Upfront presentation. The paid ad offering, initially seen as a risky move, has quickly become a hit for Netflix as it seeks new revenue streams amid intensifying streaming competition. Why we care. Netflix’s platform offers advertisers a large and expanding pool of potential customers.

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Martech

MAY 16, 2024

A group of U.S. senators including Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) released a proposed roadmap for AI policy yesterday. The senators, perhaps unaware of the jaw-dropping amount of private sector money going into AI, recommended raising federal spending for nondefense AI innovation to at least $32 billion annually. The group, which calls itself “The Senate AI Gang” ( Is there a secret handshake?

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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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Search Engine Land

MAY 16, 2024

Google has added two new crawlers to the Googlebot family of web crawlers: GoogleOther-Image GoogleOther-Video Google said these two new crawlers are versions of GoogleOther optimized for fetching image and video bytes. GoogleOther was added in April 2023 to be used internally by Google teams to crawl the public web and free up some resources for the main Googlebot crawlers.

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Martech

MAY 16, 2024

Amperity, the customer 360 platform, is describing its new, composable CDP offering as the first “Lakehouse CDP.” This approach obviates the need for reverse ETL — the commonly used means of synching data from a data warehouse to an operating system such as a CDP — or data copying. Amperity Bridge will allow users to point and share data to and from a data warehouse.

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Search Engine Land

MAY 16, 2024

A site migration can feel like packing up your entire house and moving across the country. There’s much to keep track of, and you don’t want to lose any valuable possessions (or, in this case, SEO progress) along the way. When done right, a site migration is a chance to improve site performance, enhance user experience and boost search presence.

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Martech

MAY 16, 2024

You want to capture more leads. But your marketing team is already running on fumes, attempting to drive results with limited resources. How can you use software to build a lead-generation engine that delivers big results? Marketing automations can help you streamline processes, increase productivity, and yes, capture more leads. Are you ready to shift your team into high gear?

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Whether your organization is at the start of its sustainability and impact journey or years into it, many brands share a common concern: the uncertainty of whether they are sending stakeholders mixed messages. Creating content that speaks to your audience's “love language” can be a tricky dance. But, worry not! 3BL has put together tips to ensure that your content not only finds its rhythm but also resonates with your target audiences.

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Search Engine Land

MAY 16, 2024

With rising data restrictions, Snapchat says “Execution, Experimentation and Evaluation” are the key pillars marketers need to focus on to ensure strategic measurement evolves with the times. Why we care. While Google keeps delaying deprecating third-party cookies , it will happen. So it’s important for advertisers to maintain accurate campaign insights and revenue accountability to conduct effective marketing measurement with tighter data privacy laws.

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Martech

MAY 16, 2024

It’s important that everyone is clear on the definition of customer experience. There are so many incorrect uses of the term and misconceptions about the concept itself that create confusion and dilutes the work that needs to be done. What is customer experience (CX)? Customer experience is the sum of all the interactions that a customer has with a brand over the life of the relationship with that brand.

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CopyBlogger

MAY 16, 2024

The problem with most best practice advice for marketing online courses is that it’s geared towards people who already have. Continue Reading The post How To Market Online Courses And Get Customers Now appeared first on Copyblogger.

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Buffer Marketing

MAY 16, 2024

Over the past decade, Instagram has grown exponentially, with more than a billion monthly active users. However, with that increase in users has come an equal rise in fake accounts. According to this report, as of 2019, there were approximately 95 million fake Instagram accounts, representing about 9.5% of the platform's total user base​ With about 1 billion active users, that means roughly 1 in 10 Instagram accounts are fake.

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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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Set Up

MAY 16, 2024

The CMO Spotlight is a chance to get an inside look into the minds and journeys of high-performing marketing leaders. Set up CEO + Founder, Joe Koufman , spoke with DeLu Jackson , the EVP and Chief Marketing Officer of ADT, about the power of collaboration, harnessing different communication styles, Apple’s innovation, and more. “ I realized that I really was the one that had to adapt.

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illumin

MAY 16, 2024

Humor makes the advertising world go round, or at least it used to. A good laugh is known to drive sales and boost viewership. Many successful ads and commercials rely on comedy to build engagement and humor plays a central role in reducing ad fatigue. That being said, funny ads are less common than they used to be. Research conducted by Kantar shows that humor has declined in advertising since the early 2000s.

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David Meerman Scott

MAY 16, 2024

Several hours ago, Samsung released a remarkable video response to the recent Apple CRUSH video. The text at the end “Creativity cannot be crushed” wonderfully trolls Apple. This is a great example of Newsjacking.

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yorCMO

MAY 16, 2024

How to understand your clients, what it takes to build trust and credibility, and how to measure the success of your efforts.

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Navigating the waters of sustainability reporting disclosures and regulations can be intimidating, to say the least. With various measures set in motion in 2023 to keep companies accountable, there is a lot in store for brands’ impact communication in the upcoming year. 3BL is kicking off this January with our Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Capricorn Edition by highlighting the impact of: The U.S Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Climate disclosure rules The European Commission

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Litmus

MAY 16, 2024

Think about it: when was the last time you received an email that truly spoke to you? Not just your name slapped on the subject line, but content crafted specifically with your interests, preferences, and behaviors in mind. One that left you feeling like: hey, this truly is for me. Perhaps it was a recommendation for your next favorite book, a reminder about an abandoned shopping cart, or an exclusive offer tailored to your past purchases.

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Search Engine Land

MAY 16, 2024

B2B advertising, with its long sales cycles and relatively thin data density, has never been easy. And the tracking upheaval from cookies disappearing is about to make it harder. That means that some of the pervasive flaws I’ve seen in inheriting B2B lead gen accounts over the years are about to produce even shakier results. Even without talking about cookies and alternative measurement set-ups, there’s a better path forward for lead gen in 2024.

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Martech

MAY 16, 2024

The marketing technology landscape has exploded into a vast ecosystem of over 15,000 products across 500+ categories, fueled by relentless innovation from generative AI to new channels and data sources. This growth challenges enterprise organizations to build integrated, data-driven martech stacks for seamless customer experiences. Amid this complexity, martech consultants have become indispensable guides for enterprises.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 16, 2024

Find Ease with Remarketing: The Future of Ad Targeting written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Larry Tim, f ounder and CEO of Customers.AI – a first party, website visitor identification and remarketing pixel. Also founder of WordStream – provider of Google and Facebook ad management software for tens of thousands of customers globally.

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Learn how to optimize email deliverability and drive greater email ROI. What lands your email in the customer’s inbox? Understanding those factors, otherwise known as email deliverability, is critical to getting the most return on your campaign investments. But the “rules” around which factors land you in the spam folder aren’t always easy to keep up with.