Fri.Jun 14, 2024

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AI is a game changer, but not generative AI

Martech

The generative AI arms race may be over before most people know it’s begun. Take the case of genAI as an assistant, helping users find their way around their dashboards, their messaging apps, their datasets, summarizing documents and chats and answering questions posed in natural language. Everybody’s doing it This week at PegaWorld I heard a lot about Pega’s Knowledge Buddy, an assistant trained on an organization’s own data and also plugged into an LLM, in this case Ope

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Google Ads phasing out card payments

Search Engine Land

Google is notifying some advertisers that they must transition away from paying for Google Ads via credit or debit card by July 31 or face account suspension. The big picture. The move is part of Google’s effort to steer high-spend advertisers toward more automated payment methods better suited for scaling ad investment. Details. Impacted advertisers will only be allowed to use bank-based payment options going forward: Monthly Invoicing (Google’s recommended approach) with 30-day pay

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How to bridge the gap between creative marketers and marketing analysts

Martech

Data-driven marketing organizations must create a conduit of information between their data teams and creative teams. However, legacy organizational structures, specialty skills and a lack of shared information often hinder this flow. Let’s explore the roots of the divide between creative marketing teams and marketing analysts and uncover practical solutions to bridge this gap.

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What is a RACI Chart? Project Uses, Examples & Free Template

Hubspot Marketing

Your project's success hinges on a single crucial factor: clarity. When we say clarity, we're talking about crystal-clear instructions on who does what. Everyone involved in the project, from employees to stakeholders, should know their roles and responsibilities inside out. Any confusion or oversight can lead to misunderstandings or conflicts, derailing your project faster than you can imagine.

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How to Create a Community Your Members Can't Get Enough Of

Here’s Your Blueprint for Year-Round Member Engagement. Are you ready to transform your association into a thriving, 365-day community? Download GrowthZone’s ebook, How to Create a Community Your Members Can’t Get Enough Of , and learn strategies for leveling out the peaks and valleys of member engagement. This guide provides actionable strategies to create consistent networking opportunities, deliver value-packed content, and foster connections that your members won’t want to miss.

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Is It OK for Platforms to Train Their AI With Your Content?

Content Marketing Institute

This past week, people grew outraged over Adobe’s update to service terms for its Creative Cloud, and Meta let UK and European users know their information can be used to develop its AI products. What should marketers make of all this?

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4 tips to build customer loyalty with email

Martech

Sales is anything but a numbers game. Sending templated emails in bulk might get you a bigger reach, but you’re antagonizing most, if not all, recipients. To achieve real customer loyalty, it’s important to stop referring to leads as “prospects” and start treating them like real people. 1. Warm it up The first rule of cold emailing? Avoid it if you can.

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The Consumer Insights Advantage: How CMOs can Stay Ahead in a Data-Driven World

The CMO Survey

The post The Consumer Insights Advantage: How CMOs can Stay Ahead in a Data-Driven World appeared first on The CMO Survey.

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Why video is key to building brand identity and engagement

Search Engine Land

As technology advances and high-speed internet connects more people, businesses of all sizes are realizing the power of video content to build their identity and engage with audiences. This article explores how brands are leveraging video to stand out in a crowded market. We’ll look at why video is so effective, examine case studies of successful video marketing strategies and discuss the various forms video content can take.

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The Most Popular Email Design Tools: Figma, Adobe, and More

Litmus

It takes an email marketing team an average of 2 weeks to produce a single email. That’s two weeks of tinkering with email copy, email design, and email coding before it’s ready for approvals, testing, and finally, sending it out to the world. And at any given time, 46% of email marketers have up to five emails in production. When we asked email designers in 2023 the same question , only 23% of respondents said they have up to five emails in production, at any given time.

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Pinterest launches AI ad tools

Search Engine Land

Pinterest is rolling out new AI-powered ad tools and measurement partnerships to drive better performance and brand safety for advertisers. The big picture. Pinterest is investing heavily in generative AI capabilities for more engaging, personalized ad formats and automating campaign optimization. What’s new. Pinterest is launching an “Ad Labs” innovation program to test prototypes like: Personalized background generation using its visual search AI to create aesthetically tailo

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AI Strategies for Sales Managers: How to Cut Down on Tedious Admin Work

What if you could help your sellers stop wasting 72% of their day on non-selling activities and focus on bringing in revenue? Incorporating AI in your enablement workflows can help you cut down on busy work, get projects done faster, and let your team (and you!) focus on making a bigger impact. We put together this guide to show you how to use AI to cut time and costs for projects, including collateral creation, development of training videos, and automating tedious processes.

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Influencers, Consultants, Publications, and Affiliate Marketers: Build an AI version of you (in just 30 minutes) that you can sell to your audience

Marketing Sherpa

This blog post is radically different than any other blog post I’ve ever written. Because I had an idea. It’s an idea I just can’t let go of. It’s an idea that you can take part in to make something magical and (not to sound crass but) profit from.

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Agile SEO: A playbook for online brand management

Search Engine Land

Have you ever been caught in the whirlwind of a personal or professional SEO project, overwhelmed by its complexities and unsure where to begin or what to focus on? Managing your online presence is crucial in digital marketing, where every view and click can make or break your brand. Fortunately, an entire industry is dedicated to helping individuals and organizations adopt best practices to ease project management burdens.

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Google streamlines product listings via website crawl

Search Engine Land

Google is making it easier for merchants to pull in product listings from their sites through automated “website crawl” feeds in Merchant Center. How it works. Google uses structured data markup on merchant websites to automatically extract up-to-date product information like titles, pricing, availability and images. The big picture. The automated feeds aim to reduce the work required to keep product listings current as assortment and pricing changes – a challenge with traditional fe

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