Martech

JANUARY 13, 2025

GDPR, CCPA, Apple MPP and consumer privacy Rising consumer awareness about data privacy led to landmark regulations like the EUs General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in 2018 and Californias Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) in 2020. Processing. The post Free speech, Meta, data privacy and email: A delicate balance or a complete disconnect?

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Sprout Social

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Nike and Colin Kaepernick said that in 2018 , and even in the short time since then, consumers’ expectations for brand activism have continued to evolve. Yet, since the wave of black squares and transformative commitments, many brands haven’t had much to say publicly. It’s sharing how your brand is making good on its promises.

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Martech

JULY 12, 2024

Since the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) took effect in 2018, 15 states have established their own privacy regulations , with more expected to follow. Every brand and its customers are unique, so first-party data will continue to be critical in tailoring your marketing initiatives in ways that drive business impact and ROI.

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Hubspot Marketing

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Celebrity brand partnerships are evolving beyond endorsements and #sponcon. A growing number of brands are finding new ways to work with celebrities and public figures including having them come on board as advisors or employees and exchanging equity as payment for collaborations. Graine has also invested in the brand.

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Sprout Social

JANUARY 30, 2023

Secretly, every customer wants their experience with a brand to be like the set of Cheers—where everybody knows your name. According to the 2022 Sprout Social Index™, 30% of consumers will switch to a competitor if a brand takes too long to respond to questions or feedback. This goes for brands as well. This approach pays off.

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Martech

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

” The XM Institute was formed in 2018 when Qualtrics acquired Temkin Group, a boutique consulting firm founded by Bruce Temkin, who Zdatny calls “the godfather of customer experience.” But I don’t feel like I am talking to a brand’s service center, I feel like I’m talking to the brand.

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Sprout Social

JANUARY 12, 2023

External communication, marketing and public relations (PR) have been tricky for brands over the last few years. With a documented brand strategy that incorporates a set of core values, companies are better positioned to engage with their audience on a regular basis as well as respond to unexpected events when they inevitably occur.

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

It’s no secret that the field of marketing is constantly evolving, and SaaS brands are not immune from the challenges that arise due to the fast-paced nature of the field. One great way SaaS companies can keep up is through brand advocacy. 2021 SaaS Trends that Affect Brand Advocacy. Overcome Content Overload.

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Hootsuite

AUGUST 25, 2022

But it’s still an important platform for your brand. Especially if you want to practice the art of risky brand comebacks. These days, snarky brand Twitter is beginning to feel a little played out. Let’s examine some successful social risk-takers who can inspire your brand’s comebacks. Watch and learn.

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Backlinko

JANUARY 6, 2025

Build a Strong Brand Through Storytelling When we consume 6 hours of content daily , attention is the most valuable currency in business. Most brands miss by showing only the highlight reelthe wins, the perfect moments, and the polished content. Telling raw, relatable stories is how you build a lasting brand. Stories stick.

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Martech

JUNE 3, 2022

The landscape of email marketing players comprises companies that started in the 1990s as well as those launched as recently as 2018. For each of the platforms that run email software – mobile phones, browser-based inbox providers and desktop clients – there are multiple brands and possible interfaces. appeared first on MarTech.

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SMEI

JANUARY 24, 2023

While these tactics can be effective in the short term, they ultimately lead to decreased customer loyalty and a negative perception of the brand. In addition to lowering customer loyalty and creating negative brand perceptions, shame marketing also has the potential to cause serious psychological harm.

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Hootsuite

APRIL 9, 2025

Influencer marketing is taking the lead In 2025, brands are expected to spend more on influencer marketing than on digital ads a big sign of shifting trust and impact. That means more chances for your brand to join the conversation. While not the majority of Facebooks audience, this is a highly valuable segment for brands.

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Spiralytics

JANUARY 26, 2023

Thanks to emerging personalities through parasocial relationships on social media, influencer marketing has become an effective strategy for brands to reach a wider audience. Working with influencers can be a risky move, especially when brands are not familiar with the dos and don’ts of influencer marketing.

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Sprout Social

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Social listening Sprout’s social listening solution and AI-driven technology offers custom topics, or pre-built topic templates that enable you to perform competitor analysis, analyze brand health, uncover industry insights, analyze campaigns and monitor events in a snap. Additionally, Oktopost puts an emphasis on their brand safety features.

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Hubspot Marketing

MARCH 22, 2022

But, there's more to the story of the metaverse, and a lot of things you'll need to know before even asking yourself, "Is investing in a trendy VR world right for my brand?". To explain what happens in the metaverse, we'll dive into a few types of metaverses and explain what you or your brand can do in each. Meta Horizon Worlds.

Real Estate 125

Real Estate Branding User-Generated Finance 125

Buffer Marketing

AUGUST 4, 2022

Social Proof is a series chronicling how ambitious individuals intentionally craft and grow their personal brands to inspire anyone hoping to do the same. For the second edition of Social Proof, we interview one of the prime examples of crafting a personal brand — Steph Smith.

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Backlinko

DECEMBER 27, 2024

For example, you could create a custom GPT to edit written content to reflect your brand voice. Enter your domain or landing page and click Import Brand to add brand elements. The app automatically identifies your brand name, logo, and colors. Review them and click the Create Brand button.

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Search Engine Land

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Branded keywords used to be a reliable and affordable way for businesses to attract high-value customers looking for their brand. The rising cost of branded keywords Branded keywords have become the final frontier in Google’s quest to maximize returns on search queries.

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SocialPilot

JANUARY 9, 2025

Why Facebook Reviews Matter Before we go into learning how your customers can leave recommendations on Facebook, let us take a quick look at why brands must promote leaving reviews on Facebook. If you have good reviews on your Facebook business page, it will be visible to all connected to the reviewer, improving your brand reputation.

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Search Engine Land

MAY 17, 2024

AI models that can pull from the most accurate information will have an outsized advantage over their competition, and brands that can produce this information will, too. ‘If Build your brand. In 1993, businesses grew by building great products, taking care of their customers and relying mostly on word-of-mouth to promote their brands.

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Jeff Bullas

JANUARY 30, 2023

TikTok became the world’s most downloaded app on Apple devices in 2018 and has been growing quickly ever since. If you are an aspiring influencer, business, or brand and aren’t on TikTok, you may need to re-think that approach! When you start using the platform you are able to program it to reflect your target market.

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Sprout Social

AUGUST 10, 2022

It’s little wonder, then, that influencer marketing has become an indispensable part of the PR and crisis management approach for most brands. Here are five ways to make PR and influencer marketing work for your brand during a crisis. Rebuilds trust in your brand. For the Black community, this signified a breach of trust.

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Set Up

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Here’s a comprehensive look at how Brands and consumers are navigating Black Friday 2024. The National Retail Federation forecasts holiday sales to approach $1 trillion, but with the slowest growth rate since 2018. Consumer Behavior: What’s Changing? million last year.” Black Friday 2024 reflects a retail landscape in transition.

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Hubspot Marketing

MARCH 8, 2021

As brands scrambled to offer more products and services online , social media platforms -- such as Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp --began rolling out ecommerce tools to help businesses sell more items directly from their social pages. When the COVID-19 pandemic began, many consumers raced online to buy products they couldn't get in-store.

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Neil Patel

MARCH 17, 2021

Of 18 to 21-year-olds who weren’t in high school in 2018, 57 percent were in college, compared to 52 percent of Millennials in 2003, and 43 percent of Gen Xers in 1987. Generation Z isn’t the best target audience for every brand. At this point, I’m going to assume your brand is relevant to Gen Z, and you’re eager to reach them.

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Hubspot Marketing

APRIL 12, 2021

For instance, if I was an influencer and I partnered with Brandon Blackwood , I would share a 10% discount code "MARTINA10" with my followers to use at checkout when purchasing an item from the brand. Today, performance marketing is most popular with influencers, as studies show consumers trust influencers more than brands.

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The CMO Survey

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Furthermore, In 2018, only 11.4% Notably, these privacy concerns have not meaningfully increased since 2018. This may be due, in part, to the fact that nearly two-thirds of marketers believe customers will stay with their current brand instead of switching to an alternative that offers more privacy protection.

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Hubspot Marketing

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Both blogs and podcasts nurture customer relationships, validate expertise, deepen brand loyalty, capture search, and generate leads. Your podcast host or hosts lend a human voice to your brand. An entertaining and informative podcast is an opportunity to build brand awareness among Millennials and Gen Z.

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Gen Z Millennials Inbound Marketing Entertainment 145

Hootsuite

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Social media sentiment is the attitude and feelings people have about your brand on social media. A social media sentiment analysis tells you how people feel about your brand online. It involves collecting and analyzing information in the posts people share about your brand on social media. But is it positive or negative?

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Search Engine Land

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Depending on user adoption, this could significantly affect brand reach and campaign performance. However, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg hinted in 2018 when he appeared before the US Senate that such a product could be on the horizon. Why we care. “> “> “> “> “> “> Processing…Please wait.

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Hubspot Marketing

AUGUST 25, 2022

Best Website Designs from 2018. It’s a clean design that’s free of any distractions and invites visitors to learn more about the brand. Too often, you land on a website and have to figure out what the brand is about. From there, the fun visuals continue – keeping you engaged as you learn more about the brand.

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Businesses Grow

JANUARY 9, 2023

My new book is called Belonging to the Brand: Why Community is the Last Great Marketing Strategy. However, this is the first book to examine community from the potential of brand marketing. If you open the lens much wider and view community as a brand-building powerhouse, you’ll see benefits like: Brand differentiation.

Health 142

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Litmus

AUGUST 24, 2021

Here’s how some of them look like in Gmail: How other brands are using this hack. Check out some more examples of other brands successfully using this hack to optimize their preview text: Does it impact email deliverability? The popularity of this hack is increasing, but there are still many brands who have yet to use it.

Real Estate 144

Real Estate Email Marketing Branding Management 144

Sprout Social

JULY 27, 2021

Superdrug sponsored the show in 2017 and reported 200,000 more website visits after each episode and a 900% increase in Superdrug brand search terms. In 2018, Missguided boasted a 40% sales increase every night the show was on. If you don’t deliver a conversation your audience can relate to, they will find a brand that can.

Gen Z 133

Gen Z Fashion Influencer Marketing Millennials 133

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Positive or negative experiences with your brand will either strengthen or erode consumer perception of your brand, whether engagement with your marketing and branding efforts or buying your product or dealing with your customer service after the sale. Feelings factor in every aspect of your customer’s evaluation of your brand.

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Customer Non-Profit Thought Leadership Millennials 171

Sprout Social

APRIL 14, 2021

in summer 2018, TikTok has generated six billion lifetime downloads in app stores and hit 689 million users worldwide, with no plateau in sight. Between viral dances, memes, recipes, hacks and other TikTok trends, it’s hard to avoid the platform’s influence, leaving many brands to wonder—should we be on TikTok? million on Instagram.

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