Sprout Social

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Yet, as organic reach becomes more elusive, brands are looking to TikTok branded content as a way to truly connect with their audience. This guide will show you everything you need to know about TikTok branded content. It’ll show you how it works with influencer marketing and how to measure its return on investment.

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Trade Press Services Newsletter

JANUARY 9, 2025

2025 is here, and the landscape of B2B marketing continues to evolve at breakneck speed. Rapid technological advancements, intense shifts in consumer behavior, and trends like personalization make it difficult for marketers to keep up. A documented strategy is foundational to marketing success.

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Martech

DECEMBER 27, 2024

In the new year, customer experience will remain a high priority for marketers. It will happen in how marketers and organizations view customer experience. Here are some of the ways marketers will adjust and leverage customer experience to achieve these goals in 2025. Of course, those preferences change.

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Martech

OCTOBER 3, 2024

That emotional connection to a brand is extremely important to customer loyalty. It goes beyond a product’s or service’s functional benefits and taps into customers’ feelings, values and identity. In addition, 80% of these customers promote the brand to family and friends and 62% advocate on social media.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Today’s marketing world is much more interesting than it was ten years ago. Both methods have unique advantages and challenges, but how do you know which is better for your brand? Organic media builds long-term value through SEO, social media posts, and content marketing, though it requires more time to see results.

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Hootsuite

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Key takeaways Brand loyalty is the emotional connection that drives repeat purchases from a specific brand, even when alternatives exist. Building brand loyalty involves understanding customer needs, leveraging user-generated content, personalizing all touchpoints, rewarding repeat customers, and providing stellar customer service.

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Sprout Social

MARCH 14, 2025

Within minutes, the product sells out. As the industry steadily gains popularity outside of Asia, more brands and creators are tapping into its potential. This article will break it all down: what live social shopping is, how it works, the latest trends and real-world brand examples. Sounds too good to be true?

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Hubspot Marketing

APRIL 15, 2025

Im calling out a few favorites from categories like productivity, audience growth, learning, and even building your own tools. You can try these tools tomorrow to start being more productive. AI Tools for Productivity and Audience Growth My Top Picks 1. You can actually build real products for yourself in a matter of minutes.

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Hubspot Marketing

DECEMBER 6, 2024

As an inclusive marketing strategist and consultant, one of the things I talk about consistently with my clients is brand values. In fact, HubSpot's Consumer Trends Report found that 82% of consumers want to engage with and buy from brands that share their values. My top tip is to show, not just tell.

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Sprout Social

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Which social media networks should your brand focus on? And they expect your brand to meet them where they already are. In this article, we’ll explore how to prioritize social media networks so your brand shows up where it matters most. But half of all users also interact with brands there at least once per day.

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Sprout Social

APRIL 21, 2025

Brands can tap the power of these creators highly engaged, niche audiences to increase awareness and loyalty. By listening to and engaging with niche communities, brands can also stay culturally relevant and keep a pulse on their audience. This can boost loyalty over time, turning your audience into brand advocates.

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Buffer Marketing

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Whether you are a seasoned social media marketer, a marketer looking to venture into  social media  marketing, or a business owner who wants to leverage the enormous power of social, it’s helpful to know about the most popular social media platforms out there right now. Does it fit your brand image?

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SmartBrief - Marketing

APRIL 8, 2025

Think about the brands you trust most. In essence, these are the key building blocks of every brand identity. Regardless of your industry, brand identity is more important than ever. In this article, I’ll show you how brand identity shapes customer psychology and ultimately drives loyalty.

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SMEI

MARCH 5, 2025

Podcast Trade wars can create significant challenges for businesses operating in international markets. Diversify Your Markets When a trade war impacts a specific country or region, over-reliance on that market can be risky. Instead, consider expanding to alternative markets that are not directly affected by trade restrictions.

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Hubspot Marketing

DECEMBER 12, 2024

I hear people talk about the power of story in marketing. The best marketers and the best brands are the ones telling the best stories. However, I believe most brands are telling the wrong story And it's costing them millions. The most successful marketers dont try to be the hero of their stories.

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Martech

APRIL 24, 2025

At the recent MarTech conference, I hosted a live coffee chat with Dave Minifie , CMO at Terakeet, about brand safety what it means, what it definitely doesn’t and why so many marketers still get it wrong. They help brands own the conversation. When Minifie talks about brand safety, he’s not spinning PR.

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Martech

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

TikTok wants to help brands make content for the platform with its new AI tool, Symphony Creative Studio. The tool generates TikTok-style video clips based on a product description or URL. How it works: Brands input product info or assets, or import them from a URL. Unlike competitors (e.g., What’s next. Processing.

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Martech

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Far too many content marketing programs fail to connect the brand to customer problems before the customer starts looking for a solution. At this crucial and overlooked point in the customer journey, most brands provide content about the product and the industry, when they should address specific customer pain points.

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Aspiration Marketing

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Precision is the name of the game in account-based marketing (ABM), and that precision starts with a crystal-clear understanding of your Ideal Customer Profile (ICP). In this blog, we'll explain how to identify your ICP step-by-step so you can focus your ABM efforts on high-value accounts and maximize your marketing ROI.

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Hubspot Marketing

OCTOBER 11, 2024

As a content writer in the digital marketing space, I spend a lot of time breaking down industry terms, concepts, and strategies, some of which can be more confusing or difficult to grasp than others. Table of Contents What is B2B2C marketing?

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Martech

MARCH 26, 2025

A new report found that 41% of brands now use AI for video creation, up from 18% in 2024. The report attributes the surge in the use of AI for video to the increasing accessibility of AI tools, empowering marketers to streamline production and enhance video quality. How should marketers respond? Click to enlarge.

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Martech

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Ross admits he’s a proponent of direct mail marketing but tells us: “If what shows up in your mailbox is relevant and respectful, then you’re likely to engage with it. Nor do they want to receive mail from the same brand every day. ” Remarks from Jacob Ross, CEO of programmatic direct mail vendor PebblePost.

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SmartBrief - Marketing

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

If youre a brand looking to make a splash this Valentines season, youve got to meet shoppers where they are with offerings that actually match what theyre looking for. How to win: Package self-care products in “ treat yourself “ bundles : candles, skincare, cozy robes – you name it. Want to stand out?

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 27, 2024

As technological advancements and consumer behaviors shift, staying ahead of the marketing curve is becoming increasingly critical. Implementing a few marketing strategies can help manufacturing companies unlock significant growth potential and succeed in a competitive industry. This step begins with thorough market research.

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Martech

AUGUST 26, 2024

Like just about everything in marketing, B2B marketing is changing — and fast. So, we marketers need to get on board. Interestingly, this change in buying behavior has major implications for the role of the marketing function in the firm. Could be that marketing will enjoy an increase in power and influence in B2B?

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Martech

AUGUST 20, 2024

The hype cycle’s rapid pace is unsettling many companies and their marketing departments. It’s reasonable to infer that many of those laid off were in marketing and customer service roles, where AI is handling many more tasks. Example : Mary Marketer, the marketing operations manager at ACE Corp.

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Calvyn Lee Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

In a recent conference session, chartered marketer Luan Wise shared valuable insights on leveraging social media marketing to drive business success. As Wise emphasizes, it’s a choice that can manifest in various ways, including personal development and market share expansion.

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Martech

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Many companies divide marketing responsibilities across multiple specialists: graphic designers, social media managers, marketing operations managers, content marketers and email marketers, to name a few. Customers now expect brands to engage with them in ways that feel relevant, immediate and aligned with their needs.

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Hootsuite

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

It’s a visual search engine, productivity tool, and e-commerce powerhouse for brands of all sizes. pic.twitter.com/mQ1l5jbaJm — Stallion Stats (@MegansStats) April 10, 2024 The question is, should your brand tap into Pinterest’s unwavering potential in 2025? What is Pinterest marketing? The strategy?

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Hubspot Marketing

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

In a world driven by content marketing , understanding how your target audience prefers to consume information is critical to getting your messages seen and heard. All consumers are unique, but that level of personalization as a marketer isn’t really realistic. Image Source What can you do as a marketer?

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Martech

AUGUST 1, 2024

It is 2024, and we’ve all heard how AI can improve our email marketing efforts. But as we dive into generative AI tools like ChatGPT, it doesn’t take long to realize AI can yield lackluster results, inconsistent and off-brand content and campaigns that feel average. They become obsessed with how it can create productivity.

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Hubspot Marketing

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Social media and video content are integral to any marketing strategy in 2024. 91% of businesses use video as a marketing tool, and 35% are committed to making more social media videos in 2024. If you want to leverage social media videos in your marketing efforts but are unsure how you've reached the right blog.

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Sprout Social

APRIL 28, 2025

The platform fosters passionate communities across countless interests, markets and target audiences. But unlike other social platforms, where engagement might be more straightforward, Reddit’s community-first culture requires brands to earn users’ trust by providing real value.

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Martech

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The decline of marketing as an influential business function is well documented. Among C-suite roles, chief marketing officers (CMOs) are the least likely to advance to the CEO spot and the most likely to be dismissed. The changing mandate for marketing leaders At the B2B Marcom Summit in Washington, D.C., and the U.S.

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Martech

APRIL 30, 2025

It directly influences customer loyalty, brand perception and overall business success. Brand trust and brand value depend on each other. Trust is the essential component of a brand’s value. Brands that prove their worth inspire customers to trust them even more. Demonstrating authenticity.

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