Wed.Sep 11, 2024

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Expand Your Podcast Reach with Social Media and Content Marketing

Aspiration Marketing

So, you've poured your heart and soul into your podcast. But how do you get your show in front of the listeners it deserves? This is where social media and content marketing come in. By leveraging these powerful tools, you can transform your podcast from a hidden gem into a vibrant community hub, attracting new listeners and fostering engagement with your existing audience.

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Google Search adds Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine links to about this page

Search Engine Land

Google Search is rolling out a change to its About this page/result feature where it includes links to the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. This enabling searches to view the previous version of a given webpage. Google added this feature likely because of the complaints about Google removing the cache link from that feature. What Google said. “We know that many people, including those in the research community, value being able to see previous versions of webpages when available.

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The 4 types of content buyers want

Martech

We now can generate more content than ever before, but should we? What if we knew what buyers wanted and made more of that instead of producing what’s fast and/or easy? Last month, I shared insights from our research highlighting the gap between content marketing and the buyer’s journey. Specifically, roughly 80% of closed sales deals we evaluated couldn’t be connected to marketing content.

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7 tips for delivering high-impact technical SEO audits

Search Engine Land

Many SEO professionals struggle to create technical audits that lead to meaningful improvements for their clients’ websites. Ineffective audits waste time and resources, leave critical issues unaddressed and can damage client relationships. This results in missed opportunities for better search rankings and increased organic traffic. Drawing from five years of experience conducting audits for prominent U.S. brands, I’ve developed seven essential tips for creating impactful technical SEO au

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Accelerate Your Marketing with Automation: A Quickstart Guide

Ready to streamline your marketing efforts and achieve more with less? Our guide provides a step-by-step roadmap to: Build a Strong Foundation: Set up your automation infrastructure for success. Execute Proven Tactics: Implement effective strategies to nurture leads and drive conversions. Measure and Optimize: Track your results and make data-driven adjustments.

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3 Sound Ideas for Building Audio Into Your Content Strategy

Content Marketing Institute

Your audience is almost always distracted. But when they gather around to listen, they engage with you in a deeper way. Try these expert-approved ideas for building audio into your content and marketing strategies.

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Google adtech antitrust trial: Everything you need to know

Search Engine Land

Google is on trial for allegedly abusing its dominance of the $200 billion digital advertising industry. The U.S. Department of Justice claimed that through acquisitions and anticompetitive conduct, Google seized sustained control of the full advertising technology (“adtech”) stack: the tools advertisers and publishers use to buy and sell ads, and the exchange that connects them.

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Google tests more noticeable ad labels in search results

Search Engine Land

Google is experimenting with a new way to make ads more distinguishable in its search results. The update introduces a taller gray background for ads, accompanied by a “Sponsored” label and subtitles like “Promoted products” or “Promoted results.” This is a shift from Google’s current more subtle labelling approach.

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LinkedIn Learnings: Advice for Growing Your Audience from the Buffer Team

Buffer Marketing

It’ll come as no surprise that many of the Buffer team are active on most social media platforms. We have several TikTokers, Instagrammers, YouTubers, Threaders, and more, many of whom use these networks to support their small businesses and side projects or grow their personal brands. Over the past year or so, though, LinkedIn has quickly become many Bufferoos’ social platform of choice.

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How to build and retain brand trust in the age of AI

Search Engine Land

As businesses race to adopt artificial intelligence , many struggle with a crucial question: How can they harness this powerful technology without losing the trust of their customers and employees? Recent high-profile AI failures, like Google’s flawed AI Overviews , have made headlines, leaving the public wary of AI’s potential risks. With trust being harder to earn and easier to lose, even a small misstep could damage your brand’s reputation, eroding years of hard-earned loyalty.

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The Best AI Recruiting Tools in 2024

Hubspot Marketing

Recruiters and HR professionals have a lot on their plate. From time-consuming customer screening to scheduling interviews and predicting success, they have much to keep track of — especially when hiring at scale. But in 2024, professionals across industries are starting to take advantage of AI as a handy assistant. As a writer and entrepreneur, I lean on AI tools every day to help lighten my workload.

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Data Modeling for Direct Mail: Boosting Multi-Channel Reach and Response

Speaker: Jesse Simms, VP at Giant Partners

This new, thought-provoking webinar will explore how even incremental efforts and investments in your data can have a tremendous impact on your direct mail and multi-channel marketing campaign results! Industry expert Jesse Simms, VP at Giant Partners, will share real-life case studies and best practices from client direct mail and digital campaigns where data modeling strategies pinpointed audience members, increasing their propensity to respond – and buy.

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How to un-silo your organization and be more customer-centric

Martech

Organizations often claim to be customer-centric. However, the reality frequently falls short of this. Many companies operate with rigid boundaries between the marketing, sales and customer success departments. This creates artificial barriers that negatively impact customer satisfaction and the company’s bottom line. The hidden cost of boundaries: Why siloed teams hurt revenue and customer satisfaction Putting boundaries between marketing, sales and customer success in your business coul

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Healthcare social media benchmarks: Q3 2024 research

Hootsuite

How do you know the “right” number of engagements to expect on your social posts? Is 100 likes a lot or a little? And when is the best time to post? The answer is, it depends — on your industry, the social networks you use, your audience demographics, and many more nuanced factors. But social media benchmarks can help you get pretty close to a more concrete answer.

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Martech

Meta is implementing new data restrictions in its Business Tools, which could affect how businesses target ads and measure performance. Why we care. This move reflects Meta’s ongoing commitment to privacy but could complicate ad targeting and reporting for you. Key changes. Automatic restriction of certain URL parts and custom parameters. Potential pausing of ads using highly targeted UTMs.

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Exploring the overlooked world of social objects

Businesses Grow

Have you heard of social object theory? I think this is one of the most overlooked and even undiscovered marketing ideas. In fact, social objects are probably fueling a great deal of your marketing success! Social objects come from a theory proposed by sociologist Karin Knorr Cetina. It creates a remarkably simple and useful ignition point for a word-of-mouth marketing effort.

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The Ultimate Email Marketing Toolkit

Tired of your emails getting lost in the noise? Ready to turn subscribers into customers? Our comprehensive toolkit will help you break through the noise and drive business impact. Key Benefits: Maximize Deliverability: Ensure your emails reach inboxes consistently. Personalize at Scale: Craft targeted messages that resonate with every recipient. Optimize for Results: A/B test your way to higher open rates, click-through rates, and conversions.

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How to Conduct a Simple Web Accessibility Audit

Lynton Web

Ensuring your website is accessible to all users is critical to modern web design and development. This guide will walk you through conducting a basic accessibility audit on your website, helping you identify and address common issues that may prevent some users from fully engaging with your content. What is Web Accessibility? Web accessibility is the principle that everyone should be able to access your content.

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PHA Toner: Trending in Beauty Influencer Marketing

Traackr

Learn about the beauty influencer marketing trend, PHA Toner, and what creators and brands are driving it forward on social media.

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How to manage a paid media budget: Allocation, risk and scaling

Search Engine Land

For businesses that prioritize profit margins and cash flow, the ability to manage an advertising budget is a fundamental skill. Overspending due to human error almost always means a difficult conversation with clients and stakeholders. Allocating and managing a budget in PPC looked very different a decade ago. Today, as nearly everything gets automated, the terms of engagement are very different.

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Growing your email list with quizzes

Dana Nicole

Last Updated on September 11, 2024 I’m here to give you some tips on growing your email list. And I’m not going to spit out email marketing stats to convince you as to why a list will be one of the best decisions you make for your business. (We’ve all seen the stat that email supposedly drives $36 for every $1 spent. But this stat was from research conducted in 2018/2019 and at this point, it’s as stale as that unopened box of All-Bran cereal you bought to “get more fiber.

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How to Find Common Ground: Account-Based Marketing (ABM) for Team Alignment

Speaker: Alex Moore, Co-Founder of Stratagon Marketing & Technology

Ever wondered why sales and marketing teams often struggle to collaborate effectively? Diverging goals, poor communication, and conflicting strategies frequently create silos, leading to a disconnect where marketing efforts fail to translate into substantial sales conversions. Enter Account-Based Marketing (ABM). ABM aligns marketing and sales efforts toward specific target accounts, fostering personalized interactions with high-value prospects.