Marketing Insider Group

JULY 15, 2024

How we present and consume information is changing, and it’s up to marketing professionals to keep up with the trends. Content design is a relatively new concept that’s becoming vital to your marketing strategy as you look for ways to attract an audience. The days of focusing on catchy headlines or attractive visuals are over. It’s all about creating content that truly resonates with audiences , combining strategic thinking, user-centricity, and creativity.

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Aspiration Marketing

JULY 15, 2024

How well are your current marketing efforts benefiting conversions? Conversion rate is a top metric many businesses use to determine the success of their online marketing efforts. However, not every business is successful in achieving a good conversion rate. If you struggle to gain those conversions, read on to find seven ways to improve your conversion rate in 2024.

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Hubspot Marketing

JULY 15, 2024

So, you want to hire a community manager to help raise brand awareness for your company and better connect with your consumers. There‘s just one problem: You’re not sure how to hire a community manager. What qualities should you look for when hiring? Where can you find a community manager? Why do you even need one? Well, you‘ve come to the right blog because I’m about to explain all of that and more.

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Martech

JULY 15, 2024

Best of the MarTechBot showcases the MarTechBot’s responses to prompts submitted by readers. See more about how marketers are using MarTechBot here. The language model is based on content from MarTech embedded on top of ChatGPT. The editors of MarTech selected this response for its usefulness and have supplemented it with additional relevant content.

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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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Businesses Grow

JULY 15, 2024

The topic for this blog post came to me in a dream. I woke up from my dream thinking, “Yes, it’s true. There really is one big mistake content creators make. I should tell others about it!” I’m sorry this dream wasn’t more exciting or titillating. Maybe my other dreams will be a story for another day. Or not. Before I reveal my dream-truth, I need to review a basic content marketing philosophy: Content must be unleashed.

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Martech

JULY 15, 2024

CabinetM’s Q2 2024 Martech Innovation Report reveals a surge in martech investments to $10.8 billion, despite a 31% year-over-year decrease in new product announcements. New products. We are once again seeing a steady uptick in new products since the end of last year, with the number jumping to 88 in Q2 2024 — but not nearly as much as we saw this time last year (128 in Q2 2023, a 31% decrease).

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The Marketing Operations Leader

JULY 15, 2024

In this edition: GTM ops explained - is it always a good idea? Question: How can I get involved in an operations community? POLL: What is the best way to improve MQL conversions? For Paid Subscribers: How NOT to Manage Your Team if You Are a People Manager Join me live for a real-talk career conversation with leading marketing ops leaders from the tech industry!

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Hubspot Marketing

JULY 15, 2024

As of 2024, 86% of social media marketers say building an active and engaging online community is critical to a successful social media strategy. If your company wants to build or expand its social media community, you're probably wondering which approach is better—in-house or outsourced community management. Fortunately, I have years of experience in both and can give some advice based on what I learned working in-house and later for an outsourced marketing firm.

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Martech

JULY 15, 2024

Maturing a martech stack is a critical yet often overlooked aspect of marketing technology management. While marketers frequently focus on executing immediate projects, their technology ecosystem’s long-term health and effectiveness require ongoing attention and strategic development. The building blocks of martech mastery Scott Brinker has his five Ms for martech roles — marketer, modeler, maker, maestro and manager.

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Search Engine Land

JULY 15, 2024

There’s a scam going on in the world of Google Maps / Google Business Profile. Competitors can move Google Map pins to a new location which can negatively impact rankings. This has been happening for several months and impacted many Google Business Profile listings. It’s easy for scammers to make this change using the Suggest an edit feature on a Google Business Profile and then editing the map location.

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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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Hubspot Marketing

JULY 15, 2024

In the age of social media, most brand communities exist mainly online via social media platforms like Reddit, TikTok, Facebook, or X. So, when you think of community management, you might think the person in charge of that is a social media manager. However, that may not be the case. There are actually significant differences between social media and community management, though the two can go hand-in-hand.

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Search Engine Land

JULY 15, 2024

SEO often finds itself siloed away from other marketing tactics when the best results come from tight integration. Two tactics that should absolutely be integrated for the best results are SEO and content marketing. This article examines how to combine your SEO strategy with your content marketing efforts to create an integrated SEO plan. What is content marketing?

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Kuno Creative

JULY 15, 2024

The patient experience begins online, which should put digital marketing at the top of every healthcare organization’s priority list. As for the success of a comprehensive healthcare marketing strategy ? The devil is in the details. Setting specific goals and ensuring proper representation through healthcare marketing initiatives are crucial. What organizations say and how they say it can have massive implications, which explains why so many healthcare marketers tread lightly.

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Search Engine Land

JULY 15, 2024

Meta is rolling out a new feature allowing advertisers to showcase custom offers directly on Instagram ad call-to-action (CTA) buttons. Key features: Dynamic sourcing of offer details from the ad’s website URL. Predictive display of the offer most likely to convert. Support for up to 20 offers per ad, with Meta predicting which one is most likely to convert.

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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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Marketing Insider Group

JULY 15, 2024

If you want to make your messaging more impactful, or if you’re interested in persuading an audience , you need to find a way to get that audience excited. If your target audience is currently unexcited, uninspired, or otherwise detached from your position and messaging, getting your audience excited will be an uphill battle. How do you do it?

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Search Engine Land

JULY 15, 2024

Marketers barely had a chance to process the product releases from Google Marketing Live (GML) in May before the Google algorithm leak took over the airwaves. But here in paid media land, I’ve been chewing on what we learned on the advertising front. Like other GMLs in recent years, this one was short on B2B-focused updates and pointed toward more Google control and less for advertisers.

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Tiecas

JULY 15, 2024

Writing technical content for different stages of the buyer’s journey is a big hurdle for many manufacturing content marketers. In fact, a study by the Content Marketing Institute found that 62% of them identify it as a significant challenge. ( Source ). This isn’t surprising, as each stage—awareness, consideration, and decision—requires a tailored approach to resonate with engineers, technical professionals, and industrial buyers.

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Search Engine Land

JULY 15, 2024

Meta rolled out a new feature for advertisers using its Conversions API, offering insights into event data transmission. Why we care. This tool provides advertisers with a clearer picture of how their data is being captured and sent to Meta, potentially improving ad targeting and performance measurement. The details: The “Event Coverage” feature shows the total count of browser and server events sent to Meta.

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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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Sachs Marketing Group

JULY 15, 2024

Designing a website encouraging people to take action is essential for online success. Understanding how users behave, creating interesting content, using effective design elements, implementing strategies focused on conversion, and optimizing for mobile devices can increase the chances of turning visitors into customers. Key Takeaways Understanding how users behave is crucial for website success.

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Search Engine Land

JULY 15, 2024

We’ll look back at 2024 as the year AI made its way into the martech stack. Generative AI, in particular, quickly appeared in a wide range of martech applications. In fact, as the martech landscape grew to more than 14,000 new applications in 2024, 77% of the 3,068 new tools introduced this year are based on generative AI. Every year, the annual MarTech Replacement Survey asks the marketing community about the martech solutions they replaced in the past 12 months.

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Orbit Media Studios

JULY 15, 2024

By Zontee Hou Why is it so vital to understand your customers and develop robust customer data? And ultimately, why did I feel compelled to write my book, Data-Driven Personalization , now? After all, we’ve been talking about the power of digital marketing to help marketers connect the dots between marketing impact and marketing activity for over 10 years.

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Bannerflow

JULY 15, 2024

Creating eye-catching digital advertisements is a must for any successful marketing campaign. As the advertising landscape evolves, so do the tools available to marketers.

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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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Buffer Marketing

JULY 15, 2024

Since Bluesky opened up fully, it has gained over 6 million users , with over 1 million of them active every month. Yes, that’s right, you don’t need an invite code to sign up to Bluesky anymore. Yay! However, open access means there’s an influx of new users who have no clue what to post to the fediverse platform. This is true of most new social platforms and also completely natural, especially as the platform hits the triple combination of: being fairly new with a small use

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Hubspot Marketing

JULY 15, 2024

Community management helps you build trust, loyalty, and connection with your audience. It’s also how you make sure your audience gets the most out of what you offer them. Given its importance, I understand why engaging with your own communities can feel daunting—you likely don’t want to mess it up. Not to fear. I did some online digging for this piece and found some excellent community management examples to share with you.

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Martech

JULY 15, 2024

PathFactory today acquired the well-known content experience platform Uberflip in a stock-for-stock transaction. PathFactory is a Canada-based content intelligence platform serving B2B go-to-market teams by building AI-powered content journeys based on real-time analysis of prospect behavior. Co-founded by Yoav Schwartz and Randy Frisch in 2012, Uberflip supports B2B marketers with content planning, curation, distribution and measurement.

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