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10 Outstanding Marketing Campaigns from 2023

Practical eCommerce - Marketing

This installment of our annual rundown of notable marketing includes campaigns from McDonald's, Dunkin', Heineken, Apple, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and more. The post 10 Outstanding Marketing Campaigns from 2023 appeared first on Practical Ecommerce.

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10 Content Promotion Strategies That Work (With Examples)

CopyBlogger

Even if you create the best piece of content possible, it won’t perform well if nobody finds it. Relying entirely. Continue Reading The post 10 Content Promotion Strategies That Work (With Examples) appeared first on Copyblogger.

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HubSpot Sales Hub Implementation: A How-To Guide

Aspiration Marketing

In the dynamic landscape of modern sales and marketing, HubSpot Sales Hub is a powerful ally for businesses seeking to elevate their customer engagement and revenue generation strategies. Join us in this guide as we unlock the full potential of HubSpot Sales Hub for your organization.

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Understanding the Business Model Canvas Framework

Calvyn Lee Blog

The business model canvas (BMC) is a popular framework invented by Alex Osterwalder for visually representing a company’s core business model on a single page. This article will provide an in-depth explanation of the BMC, including an overview of business models in general, a walkthrough of the nine key components of the BMC, and examples for applying it to a hypothetical furniture business.

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Marketing Operations Efficiency: The Essential Checklist

As marketing becomes more tech-driven, the role of marketing operations (MOps) is getting more complex. Today, the discipline is increasingly interwoven with other vital go-to-market motions — including sales and customer support — and is responsible for all business elements associated with marketing, including the tech stack. In this eBook, we’ll show you how marketing operations can create efficiencies in your tech stack, reporting, and budget that will not just improve internal processes, bu

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7 Creators On The Systems That Support Their Content Creation

Buffer Marketing

Since the first blog post was published and the first YouTube video was posted, content creation has evolved rapidly. It’s now treated as a legitimate business, with real earning potential for anyone with a smartphone and a willingness to share their creations. However, the ease of entry also means that anyone can become a creator, making it much harder to stand out and succeed.

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7 steps to make sure you’re getting everything from your marketing software

Martech

After attending the recent MarketingOperations.com conference (MOps-Apalooza), my cofounder Tyler remarked, “If I had a dollar for every time I heard someone at MOps-Apalooza say something about companies buying software that they never fully implemented, I think my ticket for next year’s conference would be paid for.” This problem is true for many types of software, but especially in marketing ops for a couple of reasons: There’s “shiny object syndrome,” that const

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The 2024 Guide to Social Media Strategy for Executives

Hootsuite

Whether you’re B2B or B2C, your customers want to engage with humans on social media. 56% of customers want more relatable, personable content from brands on social, but 48% of brands are still posting self-promotional content multiple times a week. How can you — a CEO, CFO, CMO, or other executive — tip the scale in your favor? Easy: be active on social media.

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Paid search for lead gen: Tips for new accounts with limited budgets

Search Engine Land

Service and lead-based businesses create thousands of new Google Ads accounts yearly, but few are (or ever will be) high spenders. Most accounts start and stick with modest budgets. They need the most support in these early stages and against bigger spenders. One fundamental part is developing a well-rounded paid search strategy that matches your strengths and works within the PPC platform’s limitations.

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50 Ecommerce Marketing Tools to Boost Revenue in 2024

Customers.ai

Online spending has skyrocketed and with online retail revenue predicted to hit $1.1 trillion this year and $1.5 trillion by 2028 , there is no slowing down. For ecommerce retailers, this opens up a huge opportunity. But to capitalize on this exponential growth, ecommerce stores must be optimized and they must be agile. After all, technology changes fast, user expectations change fast, and those who don’t adapt, won’t succeed.

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3 questions to ask about digital asset management processes

Martech

One of the biggest challenges an organization faces with running a digital asset management DAM) system is managing the processes and people who work on it. “It’s challenging because processes are sometimes embedded in our workplace and it’s difficult to change that,” said John Horodyski, managing director for Salt Flats, and a MarTech contributor , in a session at The MarTech Conference.

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How to Create a Community Your Members Cant 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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40 Interests That Deserve a Place on Your Resume

Hubspot Marketing

Early in my career, my boyfriend (now fiancé) was helping me write my resume. I asked to see his and noticed he included personal interests. He’s an engineer, so seeing hobbies like basketball and video games stood out to me. I asked him why he chose to include these, and he said, “I wanted a little more personalization to my resume and want [recruiters] to know me as a person beyond a piece of paper.

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How to turn your brand into a performance publisher

Martech

Consumers are so inundated with unwanted marketing messaging they’ve become experts at separating the hype from substance. They’re not receptive to showy displays, elaborate claims or emotional appeals that lack the depth to fulfill their needs. Take Martech’s 2024 Salary and Career Survey From AI to layoffs, it’s been quite a year. We’d like to know how it’s been for you.

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Navigating the AI Revolution: 7 Essential Insights for Marketers in 2024 [Expert Opinions]

Hubspot Marketing

From weekly stand-ups to spammy emails, chatter about artificial intelligence (AI) has saturated the marketing space over the last year. With all the information out there, it can be difficult to even know how to understand and implement AI. In my role on the AI Marketing Solutions (AIMS) team at HubSpot, I’ve seen first-hand how integrating AI can directly improve campaign metrics.

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9 interesting Google patents from 2023 and what they mean for SEO

Search Engine Land

Google patents offer valuable insights into the search engine giant’s latest innovations and priorities for improving search technology. This article dives into nine interesting Google patents from 2023, analyzing their potential implications for the future of SEO. Do the patents reflect Google’s actual practices? Just because Google files and publishes a patent application doesn’t guarantee that the methods outlined will be implemented in Google Search.

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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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Influencer-Founded Food and Beverage Brands: Are They Good Business?

Hubspot Marketing

I'm writing this while sipping coffee made by Emma Chamberlain's French press. The 22-year-old YouTuber is not only Gen Z’s favorite influencer , but also a big-time entrepreneur. Her coffee brand, launched in 2020, took off among young coffee lovers (and even tempted me, a not-so-young coffee lover). It got me thinking: Has food and beverage become the new playground for creators and influencers?

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Infobip partners with Community to launch a global messaging offering

Martech

Omnichannel messaging platform Infobip has announced a partnership with SMS customer engagement platform Community allowing both vendors to expand their geographic footprint. U.S.-based Community will have an opportunity to reach an international audience, while London-based Infobip will gain greater access to the North American market. Community and Infobip.

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YouTube adds more formats for Video Reach Campaigns

Search Engine Land

Google has rolled out additional formats for Video Reach Campaigns (VRCs) for Efficient Reach on YouTube. VRCs can now be scaled to in-feed and shorts, as well as in-stream ads, providing marketers with a more diversified and effective approach to reaching their target audience with a single campaign. Leveraging its machine learning technology, Google then identifies the most effective combination of ads to serve for maximum reach and efficiency.

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The Marketing Mandate for 2024: Build Stronger Bonds With Your Audience

Content Marketing Institute

If you want to develop and keep your customer and audience relationships in 2024, you will need to strengthen those bonds. Here’s why that’s marketing’s new mandate – and how to make it happen.

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The Power of Community: Why a Branded Community is a Must-Have for Every Association

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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65 Examples of Corporate Business Babble — and What to Say Instead

Hubspot Marketing

Business jargon has long dominated corporate conversations, complicating straightforward discussions. My colleague Shannon and I tackled this issue a few years back by creating Business Babble Bingo—a playful yet enlightening game. This game was our subtle rebellion against the meaningless buzzwords dominating meetings, presentations, and websites. But despite the time elapsed, the problem of business jargon still muddles communication.

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How to Apply Interactivity at Each Stage of the Marketing Funnel [+ Examples to Get Inspired]

Rock Content

Creating ebooks, whitepapers, infographics, and other resourceful content pieces has been a staple for marketers over the years. These assets are indispensable for generating leads, educating the audience, and achieving various KPIs. However, it has been a while since people started dividing their attention among the massive amount of content available in various formats.

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How to Measure the Impact of Your Website Redesign Using GA4

Orbit Media Studios

By Andy Crestodina I personally review the performance for every website we launch. We redesign around 40 websites per year. So I spend a lot of time in and out of GA4 accounts, measuring the impact of website redesign projects. Every website is different. Different traffic sources, different content strategies, different goals and conversions. So every post-launch Analytics review is unique to that client.

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The Surprising Metric that Matters Most for SERP Rankings in 2023 (Hint: It’s Not Authoritativeness)

Hubspot Marketing

Google uses 200+ ranking factors when determining the search results. How do you ensure that your website gets more visibility and, thus, higher SERP positions? What is the ultimate metric that can make or break the rankings? Is it the domain authority, content quality, page speed, or mobile readiness? While many SEOs will argue that authoritativeness is the main factor for higher rankings, surprisingly, it's not.

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How to Prove Marketing Value: Demonstrate Content ROI and Contribution to Sales

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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Website Woes to “Wow!” The Power of a Website Refresh

yorCMO

Transform your online presence from 'Woes' to 'Wow!

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The content marketing advantage of generative AI by Digital Marketing Depot

Search Engine Land

A new report from Deloitte Digital illuminates the escalating challenges content marketers face, and how forward-thinking brands are generating eye-opening results from generative artificial intelligence. Key findings include: 1 in 4 companies have already implemented generative AI for marketing content, with another 45% or surveyed marketers planning to implement by the end of 2024.

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Keep your emails consistent and beautiful with Theme Settings

AWeber

Picture this…you just wrote a Pulitzer worthy newsletter in a Google Doc that you’re ready to send to your audience. The only thing left to do is copy it into your email message editor. But when you do, you realize that a different font and headline color look better in the email. So you take the time consuming steps to update each block of text and headline one-by-one (?).

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AI is only as smart as the data you feed it by Adlucent

Search Engine Land

Data has become the driving force behind financial resilience and success, giving marketers the challenge of navigating rising CPCs and automation. The need for advanced analytics and harnessing first-party data has never been more crucial to maximizing revenue and profitability. Enter the world of predictive analytics, where the key to above-and-beyond search performance lies in the strategic use of AI technologies and the integration of your own customer data, marketing data and web analytics

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Evolving Beyond Intent: Create Customer Value with Signals

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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Generating Leads in Professional Services: Proven Tactics You Can’t Ignore

Duct Tape Marketing

Generating Leads in Professional Services: Proven Tactics You Can’t Ignore written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I’m steering the ship solo, diving into the intricate world of marketing for professional services. Whether you’re a consultant, agency, fractional CMO, or part of the legal and accounting landscape, this episode is tailored just for you.

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Search Engine Land celebrates its 17th birthday 

Search Engine Land

Search Engine Land officially celebrated its 17th birthday yesterday. This past year was unlike any we’ve seen in the world of search – 2023 was a year of seismic changes in SEO and PPC thanks largely to generative AI. Plus, we can’t forget Google Analytics 4. But the mission of Search Engine Land remains the same as it has since Day 1 – to keep you updated on the latest changes in SEO and PPC via news, analysis and guides.

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Write and Publish a Book that Transforms Your Business and Supercharges Your Personal Brand

David Meerman Scott

Publishing a book is the ultimate way to build authority and credibility in the marketplace. Your book can generate passionate fans of your work, lead to more business at higher fees, make raising VC funding easier, put you on the fast track for promotion, or launch a public speaking career.

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Search Engine Land’s commitment to use generative AI responsibly

Search Engine Land

At the end of the summer, we published a generative AI use policy for our team and contributors to follow. Publicizing that we created a policy seemed unnecessary. There’s enough humble-bragging online. But since creating the policy, reputable publishers including Gannett ( here and here ) and Sports Illustrated were accused of using generative AI to create articles and publish them under phony bylines.

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Marketing Operations in 2025: A New Framework for Success

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.