Social Media Examiner

MAY 21, 2024

Is the AI-generated content you’re producing too generic? Wondering how to improve the quality of your AI content? In this article, you’ll discover how to get AI to create better content. Create Better AI-Generated Content: Prompts vs Prompt Engineering If creating content is part of your work, you've likely used prompts to generate content from […] The post How to Get AI to Create Better Content appeared first on Social Media Examiner.

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MAY 21, 2024

Imagine a crowded marketplace, all vying for the attention of the same customers. In today's marketing landscape, this is no exaggeration. With 80% of businesses using a multi-channel approach , how do you make sure your voice cuts through the noise?

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Martech

MAY 21, 2024

Today, Google introduced new creative tools and ad experiences at its annual Google Marketing Live event, held in New York. Here’s what marketers can expect to see at Google, either now or in the coming months. Search ad experience. Among the most inventive improvements to search is a new ad experience currently in testing and slated to become more widely available later in the year.

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Content Marketing Institute

MAY 21, 2024

Laughing at content failures feels cathartic at times (there but for the grace of the audience …). But extreme reactions can have a chilling effect on creativity. Here’s the real lesson to take from Apple’s failed iPad Pro ad.

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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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Martech

MAY 21, 2024

It’s no secret that Caitlin Clark and a number of other young stars are having a huge impact on engagement with women’s basketball. Clark’s WNBA debut smashed records at ESPN, drawing over two million viewers. But did you know the Paris Olympics this year will be the first to feature an equal number of women and men athletes? Fifteen percent of adults who plan to watch the Olympics are aware of this.

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Rock Content

MAY 21, 2024

On May 14th, during its annual Google I/O conference — and just one day after OpenAI unveiled ChatGPT-4o to the world on May 13, 2024—Google introduced AI Overviews, an enhancement of what was previously known as the Search Generative Experience (SGE). This breakthrough represents not just a step, but a leap forward in how search engines operate, aiming to fundamentally transform the user experience across the globe.

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Search Engine Land

MAY 21, 2024

Unsurprisingly, AI took center stage during the various announcements made today at Google Marketing Live 2024. Updates also focused on creatives, data and giving the consumer what they want straight from the Search results. Now is the time to start paying closer attention to your impression levels. Here’s a recap of everything you need to know from Google Marketing Live, with links to our full coverage of each major announcement.

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Martech

MAY 21, 2024

David Ogilvy famously said, “Give me the freedom of a tight brief.” The sentiment is that the best creative outcomes come when briefs are focused and specific, providing little room for interpretation. Born out of the ad agencies of the 1960s, creative briefs were a way for the account planner — the person closest to the client — to set creative strategy in motion.

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Hubspot Marketing

MAY 21, 2024

I’m an inclusive marketing consultant and the founder of Thompson Media Group. A former client of mine recently forwarded me an email he’d received from a market insights company he’s subscribed to. The insights the company had included in this particular email was about "The Top 5 Ranked TV Sitcoms in U.S. History" according to consumers. My client’s message to me was one of disbelief at the results, writing, "According to who?".

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Martech

MAY 21, 2024

The convergence of big data and artificial intelligence (AI) is setting the stage for revolutionary changes in how brands engage with consumers. Traditional marketing methods are struggling to keep pace with the heightened expectations of modern consumers and rapid technological advancements. Print, television, direct mail, telemarketing — these all have their place in brand marketing, but consumers of all ages, all incomes and all genders are now digital creatures.

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Search Engine Land

MAY 21, 2024

Ads are coming to AI Overviews, Google announced today at Google Marketing Live 2024. What’s new. Google is testing the inclusion of Search and Shopping ads inside the AI Overviews boxes that can appear atop search results for complex queries. How it works. When an ad is deemed relevant to both the search query and the AI Overviews, it will surface within that overview in a “sponsored” section.

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AWeber

MAY 21, 2024

One of the most important things about any email you send is the subject line. A good subject line can make the difference between someone being curious enough to open or choosing to skim right past. I write our weekly newsletter with my friends Chelsea and Sean, so I’m personally familiar with how hard and stressful it can feel when it comes time to write a good subject line.

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Search Engine Land

MAY 21, 2024

For ecommerce SEO, shop category pages have been a key focus. But that could change. The presence of Google Shopping in the form of Product Grids and as part of AI Overviews is increasing rapidly. This puts Google Shopping as the focus of ecommerce SEO. Google’s semantic database behind shopping is the Google Shopping Graph, so it’s time you consider shopping graph optimization.

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The LeadG2 Blog

MAY 21, 2024

Are you tired of pouring resources into marketing campaigns that fizzle out before making an impact? Brace yourself because LeadG2 is about to shake up your approach and supercharge your brand's visibility. We have weathered countless marketing storms and emerged with strategies that don't just scratch the surface—they shatter it. Here are seven steps we know will help elevate your business.

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Ever wonder why brands like Apple, LEGO, and Sephora are going all-in on branded communities? It’s because online community building is the secret sauce to connecting with audiences in ways that ads and emails simply can’t. But here's the best part—it’s not just for big corporations. Associations can create thriving online communities too. GrowthZone’s eBook, "The Power of Community," breaks down exactly why a branded online community can be a game-changer for your association.

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Search Engine Land

MAY 21, 2024

Google introduced new AI-powered tools to help advertisers rapidly produce high-quality Performance Max creative assets at scale for campaigns across marketing channels. This was one of several announcements today at Google Marketing Live 2024. What’s new. Upgrades to the Performance Max platform include: Generative AI capabilities to accelerate creative production speeds by up to 5x.

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Martech

MAY 21, 2024

For years, B2B marketing largely revolved around a performance marketing strategy focused on collecting MQLs and using marketing automation to nurture leads until they were ready to buy. At its best, this strategy was measurable. Using martech applications, marketers and their leadership could easily track leads, monitor conversions and predict pipeline.

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Search Engine Land

MAY 21, 2024

Google has fully rolled out its Ads Data Manager tool to help advertisers easily centralize and activate their first-party data for more effective AI-powered campaigns. What’s new. Ads Data Manager allows businesses to bring together disparate first-party data sources (e.g., conversions, email lists, surveys) into a single unified analytics hub.

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Buffer Marketing

MAY 21, 2024

We’re always adding new features and updates to Buffer. This year, we've introduced several new additions, and we're excited to give you a sneak peek at what's coming next. Here's everything you need to know about our latest updates and what to look forward to. Already released in 2024 Notification Publishing for Instagram Buffer can either auto-post on your behalf or you can choose to get notifications to finish the post yourself.

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Every marketer knows how important it is to prove their efforts drive sales opportunities, but that’s easier said than done. When problems like sales and marketing misalignment, lack of data, and wasted efforts persist, marketers can’t measure, prove, or increase their impact on revenue at a time when demonstrating marketing value is critical. Using analyst and expert data, this guide to marketing impact and content attribution explains: How B2B buyers use content The most common types of conten

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Search Engine Land

MAY 21, 2024

Google is experimenting with a new ad experience on Search that aims to guide consumers through complicated buying decisions using AI assistance. The big picture. The test explores how Google’s AI capabilities could enhance ads to provide more tailored advice and recommendations based on a user’s specific needs and context. Why we care. With this update advertisers will be getting a higher converting clicka to their site.

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Buffer Marketing

MAY 21, 2024

For years, I struggled to grow my audience on Instagram. After 6 years of trying hard to build my fitness-focused account, I only had 2,300 followers to show for it. While I do believe follower count is a vanity metric, I couldn’t help feeling frustrated and like a failure. Realizing I needed a change, I revamped my strategy based on my experience to grow a new Instagram account Not Bored in DC to over 20,000 followers in just 9 months while also getting paid to create content.

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Search Engine Land

MAY 21, 2024

Google is rolling out upgrades to Google Lens and Circle to Search, adding more links, knowledge panel information and even the new AI Overviews to the search results generated by Lens and Circle to Search. “We’ve been expanding the type of results you can get with Lens & Circle to Search,” Rajan Patel, the VP of Engineering at Google announced.

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illumin

MAY 21, 2024

With so many divisive headlines in a controversial news year, many marketers struggle with where to direct their budgets during a busy election season. Join L2’s Paul Westcott and illumin’s Lyndsie Wise as we jump into this topic in detail. Tuesday, July 23, 2024, 1:30 ET. Register here! Speakers Paul Westcott – EVP of Sales and Marketing, L2: Over Paul’s ten-year tenure at L2, he has massively expanded the business, growing the company’s footprint in academia, co

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Speaker: Jam Khan, SVP, Product Marketing at ZoomInfo & guest speaker Amy Hawthorne, Principal Analyst from Forrester

Buying signals extend well beyond intent. They give go-to-market teams the chance to know everything about their customers. With buying signals, they can reach more customers and win more deals. Join Jam Khan, SVP, Product Marketing of ZoomInfo and guest speaker Amy Hawthorne, Principal Analyst from Forrester for this new webinar where you'll find out how marketing teams operate more efficiently and sales teams close more business when they act on buying signals, not just intent!

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Search Engine Land

MAY 21, 2024

WordPress version 6.5 now supports including the lastmod element within sitemaps files, which can help search engines understand which pieces of content are new or updated. This can help improve crawl efficiency for search engine crawlers and reduce server load on your website. Lastmod. Lastmod is an element that you can add to your sitemap file that should represent the last time that URL was modified.

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Hubspot Marketing

MAY 21, 2024

Even the most creative people know the most innovative projects get done when you work as a team. However, working as a team can be difficult without the right tools to streamline and organize your workflows while keeping everyone informed. So, to help you work more efficiently with your team, I rounded 10 of my favorite design collaboration software and tools you can try.

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Search Engine Land

MAY 21, 2024

More options are available for visually immersive ad formats to drive consumer demand and conversions across its YouTube, Discover and Gmail properties, Google announced today at Google Marketing Live 2024. Driving the news. Key updates include: Expansion of Demand Gen video ad campaigns to reach up to 3 billion users monthly across YouTube, Discover and Gmail inboxes.

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Backlinko

MAY 21, 2024

We reviewed dozens of content marketing examples in different formats and from multiple channels. And handpicked the 22 most inspiring examples to share here with you. Take a look at what was launched, what worked, and what you can borrow from each example to create winning content marketing campaigns of your own. Innovative Blog Posts Your blog isn’t just a play for search engine optimization (SEO).

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Speaker: Mike Rizzo, Founder & CEO, MarketingOps.com and Darrell Alfonso, Director of Marketing Strategy and Operations, Indeed.com

Though rarely in the spotlight, marketing operations are the backbone of the efficiency, scalability, and alignment that define top-performing marketing teams. In this exclusive webinar led by industry visionaries Mike Rizzo and Darrell Alfonso, we’re giving marketing operations the recognition they deserve! We will dive into the 7 P Model —a powerful framework designed to assess and optimize your marketing operations function.

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Search Engine Land

MAY 21, 2024

The convergence of big data and artificial intelligence (AI) is setting the stage for revolutionary changes in how brands engage with consumers. Traditional marketing methods are struggling to keep pace with the heightened expectations of modern consumers and rapid technological advancements. Print, television, direct mail, telemarketing — these all have their place in brand marketing, but consumers of all ages, all incomes and all genders are now digital creatures.

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illumin

MAY 21, 2024

Podcasts are seeing a global uptick. Find out why and how you can take part in this trend. Nowadays, it seems people listen to more than just music on their streaming apps or watch the daily news on television. Podcast consumption (and its advertising) is seeing rapid growth, especially among Canadian audiences. In fact, the podcast advertising market in Canada is projected to reach revenue of $67.29 million USD in 2024.

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Search Engine Land

MAY 21, 2024

It’s the ideal SEO scenario: you rank for that keyword you promised everyone you would get in the top 10 this quarter and it’s driving traffic and growth for the business. You did it. Time to go have a beer and cash those sweet SEO checks. Right? No. You never win SEO. This is both good (job stability) and bad (mental health). But if you stay on top of your game, you can build a sustainable program that helps drive growth and exponential growth over time.

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Search Engine Land

MAY 21, 2024

New shopping features aimed at helping merchants better showcase their brands and create visual content using AI technology are now available, Google announced today at Google Marketing Live 2024. The big picture. More than 40% of Google shopping searches mention specific brands or retailers, per internal Google data, signaling shoppers rely heavily on brand reputation and imagery when making purchases.

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Unlock the secrets to building strong communities and sustaining growth with GrowthZone’s “5 Pillars of Community” ebook. In today's digital era, fostering a sense of belonging is more important than ever. GrowthZone’s informative ebook will help you transform your association’s community and discover new opportunities for growth. Explore the importance of personal and virtual communities, the ACHIEVE Model for success, and the key pillars including Direction, Shared Responsibility, Personal Val

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