Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2017

It’s planning season, marketers. Are you donning your boxing gloves? Gearing up for another fight with finance to spar over the funds you need to fuel next year’s programs and activities? Gartner recently found that marketing budgets are beginning to recede, dropping from their peak (12.1% of company revenue in 2016) to 11.3% in 2017. Why? According to Gartner, the drop is due in part to marketing leaders being too distracted by tactics and execution.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 18, 2017

This is my last article for a while, so I really wanted this one to make an impact and stay with you. Even though the amazing CMI editorial team wanted me to write about marketing, I wrote this instead (ha). Occasionally, I’ll do an interview where someone will ask: “What’s the one thing you did that made the greatest impact to where you are at now?”.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Email marketing continues to be one of the most effective channels to use to reach out to and stay connected with your customers. While many brands have seen their open rates decline over the past few years, those who have been able to keep up with how email has been changing have reaped the benefits […]. The post Top 10 Email Marketing Strategies from 2017 (And 1 for The Future) appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Why Reviews Are More Important Than Ever for Local Search written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Most local business owners are aware that positive online reviews are good for business, but over the years, I’ve realized many aren’t aware of just how much they can impact it. Today’s consumers are increasingly relying on reviews to make decisions about the products and services they purchase, in fact: 88% of consumers trust online reviews as much as personal re

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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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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Did you know that 24% of global marketing budgets were spent on events in 2017? That’s almost a quarter of your budget going to events such as: Breakfast/Lunch & Learn Series. User Group Meetings. Executive Networking Dinners. Roadshows or 1 Day Seminars. Customer Advisory Boards. Tradeshows. User Conferences. While events can be powerful for driving engagement and adoption of your brand, it can often be tricky to get consensus and clarity on how to measure the ROI of an event.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 22, 2017

PNR: This Old Marketing with Joe Pulizzi and Robert Rose can be found on both iTunes and Stitcher. . In our grand finale episode, Robert kicks things off by pondering the decision to end something, so that something else can begin. We answer listener-submitted queries, and ask a few of our own; then we sign off with a final farewell inspired by a few of the greats.

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Rock Content

DECEMBER 21, 2017

There is so much opportunity when implementing new technology in your sales organization. New sales technology can increase productivity, accelerate deals, and boost revenue. But getting sales reps to use new technology can be a real challenge. If you’re a sales leader trying to implement a global software platform, it can be difficult to secure adoption.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 22, 2017

With just over a week left in 2017, the year has already set another record number of data breaches — far surpassing 2016’s figures. The latest data from the ITRC shows that, as of December 20, there have been a total of 1293 breaches, with a total number of records exposed reaching 174,253,442. To put that into context, in all of 2016 there were 1,093 breaches.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2017

I cannot tell you where 2017 went. I know that I added more things to my to-do list than I was able to cross off, and I’m pretty sure that I still have condiments in my refrigerator that expired in 2016. (Note to self: add “clean fridge” to my to-do list.). As we marketers wrap up our 2018 planning, it’s difficult to not get excited about the potential a new year brings.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Content marketing – the art of attracting customers to your brand because your content is that good – has really come into its own in 2017. No longer viewed as ‘just a blog,’ content is being created, curated and delivered in creative, innovative and engaging ways through dozens of platforms, from brilliant videos to inspiring live […]. The post Top 10 Content Marketing Articles of 2017 appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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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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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 20, 2017

After you put away the champagne flutes and flip the calendar to 2018, what will you set your sights on to take your marketing to the next level in the new year? What has 2017 taught you? One place to look for lessons is CMI’s two conferences – Content Marketing World and Intelligent Content Conference. As I review the blog posts I’ve written this year about the talks at those conferences, I’m struck by one big takeaway: Marketers need to expand their view of their role and their sense of how th

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Rock Content

DECEMBER 18, 2017

‘Twas the Week Before Christmas… Twas the Week Before Christmas, and all through the house. Not a creature was stirring — except for a few trendy engineers! As the year winds down, many see the coming holidays as a time to connect with loved ones, relax and reflect on the last 12 months. Truth be told, I would love to revisit some of the great how-to’s that ScribbleLive has published over the past couple of quarters.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Competitive intelligence is a critical piece of most sales cycles and often a top concern for sales teams. Sales teams that do not have the right intelligence (intel) face the potential to feel discredited, or ill-prepared in front of prospects during the sales cycle. As a marketer with a deep partnership our sales teams, every feedback cycle, the top thing we hear is that sales teams want is more competitive intelligence, more enablement on said intel, and more customer-facing collateral to hel

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Marketing is broken, and we as marketers have our own tactics to blame. In the rush to produce ever more marketing content in response to the cries from sales and executives for “More! Now!”, we have fractured our workflow with an ever-increasing set of tools that give us more metrics while obfuscating our goals and […]. The post Marketing, Meet Your Ultimate Metric appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Admit it: When the stress and exhaustion of finding something uniquely delightful for every person on your holiday shopping list have brought you to the brink of madness, you’ve at least considered the idea of re-gifting. After all, that expensive orange scarf that sadly clashes with your skin tone, the never-opened kitchen mixer you got for your bridal shower, or that trendy toy your child never got around to playing with are all lovely gifts.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 19, 2017

To survive in today’s competitive digital marketing landscape, you need to be intuitive, social media-savvy, and persistent. Most importantly, you need to be a jack of all trades. To save time and make your job simpler, you will have to rely on a wide range of digital marketing tools. Whether you’re analyzing off-page backlinks or […]. The post 5 Tools Digital Marketers Want for Christmas appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Even as marketers, we need to ensure that our home on the web is handled. It needs to be set up correctly, as well as maintained. The following two issues are not as much fun as planning the next marketing strategy. They are not as interesting as running a content marketing campaign. So, what do […]. The post Two Things We Put Off (and Shouldn’t) When It Comes to Our Marketing Site appeared first on Marketing Insider Group.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2017

Can ‘personalization’ as we know it survive 2018? The most praised tool in digital marketing has contributed to a divisive, fractured conversation about the nature of privacy. Consider that some of 2016 and 2017’s most controversial tech stories involved varying degrees of personalization propaganda bots tricked social media algorithms to influence what users saw.

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Marketing Insider Group

DECEMBER 21, 2017

You know that wonderful feeling you get when you feel the crisp smell of a new book while turning the pages, all tucked in a comfortable armchair with a big cup of hot cocoa while the rain keeps pouring outside? It’s great and that’s why that particular image is used in so much of today’s advertising. Books and bookstores are indeed a hoot and a half and having a personal library can be a treat – up to the time when cleaning is in store and you see just how many dusty bunnies can hide in between

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Some of the best inspirational and engaging content comes from unexpected places. B2B and B2C brands surprise and delight their audiences with relevant, entertaining, or unique content opportunities, from Instagram to YouTube to new digital media partnerships. Natalya Minkovsky finds some of the best examples for her Idea Garage column appearing in each Chief Content Officer magazine.

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